| FLASHBACK | Recollection of showy defender |
| ENNOBLING | Points to lack of showy jewellery as dignifying (9) |
| HYDRANGEA | Shrubby plant with large clusters of showy flowers which doesn't like the soil in Mallorca so is best grown in pots on the island (9) |
| LILYPONDS | Sold ply in different display areas of showy plants (4,5) |
| DESPERADO | Time of special power, perhaps, in recollection of deviant criminal (9) |
| REMINISCE | Indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events (9) |
| NOSTALGIC | Clings to a recollection of things past? (9) |
| NOSTALGIA | Recollection of a lasting love? (9) |
| ANAMNESIS | Recollection of something long forgotten (9) |
| SCANTIEST | Recollection of cattiness, most brief (9) |
| MELODRAMA | Such histrionics died in recollection of part secured by papa's partner (9) |
| LAURIELEE | Author of the classic recollection of childhood Cider with Rosie (6,3) |
| GOLDAMEIR | Leave a milder recollection of so-called Iron Lady (5,4) |
| YUCCA | Genus of evergreen plants, having rosettes of long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large head of showy white blossoms (5) |
| TICKSEED | Any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods. |
| RHODODENDRON | Genus of plants of S. Asia with clusters of showy flowers (12) |
| SNAPDRAGON | Plant of the genus Antirrhinum with spikes of showy two-lobed flowers (10) |
| IXORA | Tropical shrubs of the madder family, having glossy leaves and clusters of showy flowers. (5) |
| LARKSPUR | Any plant of the genus Delphinium in the family Ranunculaceae (buttercups), bearing long spikes of showy flowers (8) |
| LOBELIA | A plant of the bellflower family with clusters of showy, lipped flowers (7) |
