| SHREWSBURY | Known as the "Town of Flowers", the county town of Shropshire, where Charles Darwin was born in 1809 (10) |
| MARKETDRAYTON | Town in north Shropshire where Clive of India was born in 1725 (6,7) |
| KENTUCKY | US state in which Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 (8) |
| TORONTO | City originally known as the Town of York |
| ANNAPOLIS | State capital of Maryland, founded as the town of Providence in 1649 (9) |
| BEAGLE | Name the ship in which Charles Darwin was the official scientist (6) |
| CARSON | Kit, U.S. fur trapper and guide born in 1809 after whom Nevada's state capital is named (6) |
| KAMA | Represented with a bow of sugar cane, a bowstring of bees and arrows of flowers, the Hindu god of love (4) |
| BOUQUET | From "bush, wood", word for a clump of arbors originally, now a bunch of flowers; the aroma, nose or perfume of a fragrance/scent, liqueur or wine; a compliment or expression of praise; or, a rose/wed |
| RYANSDAUGHTER | In which 1970 David Lean film, set in Ireland, did John Mills win an Oscar as the town idiot? (5,8) |
| PEONY | Plant in the buttercup family With large. showy globular flowers, the Balearic variety was once widespread in Mallorca but is now more limited to the mountainous north-west of the Island (5) |
| IRES | The dashboard is a public website which keeps updated information on the state of sewage treatment plants. It has the same name as a flower, the Greek goddess of the rainbow, and sounds like the USA t |
| METOFFICE | Founded in 1854 by Robert FitzRoy who was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard, the name of UK's national weather service since 2000 (3,6) |
| SALOP | Former name for both the county of Shropshire and the town of Shrewsbury (5) |
| JOHNMOORE | Glasgow-born British army lieutenant-general mortally wounded in the Battle of Corunna in 1809 |
| IKEBANA | Meaning "living flowers", the Japanese art of floristry, also known as kad, "way of flowers" (7) |
| BROADSTAIRS | Coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in Kent where Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield (11) |
| FORTYMINUTES | In 2.1, the King of the Fairies orders Puck to fetch a "little western flower"; "the juice of it," he continues, "on sleeping eyelids laid, will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live crea |
| BREDA | Dutch city where Charles II spent most of his exile in the 1650s (5) |
| CARISBROOKECASTLE | Isle of Wight C12th fortification where Charles 1 was imprisoned for a year in 1647-8 (11,6) |
