| POLLEN | Powder from flower cut back by Leonard (6) |
| EXTRAS | Additional bits of old refuse cut back by 20 per cent |
| FARINA | Mealy powder from afar inappropriate (6) |
| HIDDEN | Camouflaged skin by applying essential powders from North (6) |
| VIOLET | Carry out investigation about oil extract from flower (6) |
| SUCKLE | What mothers do, extracting honey from flower (6) |
| NIGGLE | Complaint from flower covered girls (6) |
| ORDERS | Demands bottom of shrub is removed from flower beds (6) |
| RIGSBY | Rupert -, sitcom character played by Leonard Rossiter (6) |
| STAMEN | Takes a powder from the plant |
| MAYFLY | What might emerge from flower could pass quickly |
| AZONAL | Missing segments, each removed from flower to seize on |
| PERRIN | Reginald, middle manager played by Leonard Rossiter as a title character in a 1970s TV sitcom (6) |
| REPENT | Sorry to say: ochon, ochon! (as said in song by Leonard Cohen) (6) |
| DRAGON | 1963 Peter, Paul and Mary hit based on a poem by Leonard Lipton (4,3,5,6) |
| TRACES | "True Love Leaves No ___" by Leonard Cohen |
| ROLYPOLY | Substantial part reduced by end of day and cut back by start of year |
| POLICECONSTABLE | Bobby Charlton's header, running fast after cut back by reserve (6,9) |
| CIDER | Drink order cut back by last customer (5) |
| TRAFALGAR | Battle dress cut back by fighter pilots in a short story (9) |
