| ANEMONES | Sea creatures resembling flowers of the same name |
| YAHOO | Member of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels |
| TURTLE | Sea-creature resembling a tortoise (6) |
| ANEMONE | Sea creature resembling a flower |
| STARSHAKE | Timber flaw resembling flowers |
| SPRIGS | Clay shapes resembling flowers or foliage applied to unfired pottery (6) |
| LILAC | A pale violet or lavender colour evocative of a fragrant flower of the same name in the olive family (5) |
| ORCHID | Pastel purple (or fragile flower of the same name) |
| SEEDS | Pollen grains stick to a bees body and when it lands on another flower of the same type, these grains rub off and fertilize the flower causing it to make ___ |
| CROSS | Pollination via pollen from another flower of the same species (5) |
| RAREST | "Bring flowers of the ......" opening line of the Hymn 'Queen of the May' (6) |
| BACON | Cured gammon-, ham- or pancetta-like flitch, known to the French as lard and imagined as the reddish tips of the egg yolk-yellow flowers of the birdsfoot trefoil (5) |
| HOP | The flowers of the ... plant are used in the brewing of beer |
| NEROLIOIL | Full name of a substance distilled from the flowers of the Seville orange (6,3) |
| CELANDINE | Lesser -; yellow bloom with heartshaped leaves in the buttercup family which is one of the first woodland flowers of the year (9) |
| GLADIOLUS | Plant of the Iris family with sword-shaped leaves, the purple flowers of the wild variety can be seen in fields all over Mallorca (9) |
| ROSECHAFER | Beetle that eats flowers of the plant that is the national emblem of England (4,6) |
| COCKBURN | Alison ?, 18th-century Scottish poet who authored a version of ballad The Flowers of the Forest (8) |
| BLOSSOM | Flowers of the hawthorn or trees including apple, orange and cherry (the latter celebrated in the Japanese custom Hanami) (7) |
| PENTAMEROUS | Having parts (such as Of flowers of the plants discussed in this week's Miscellany) that are in groups, or multiples, of five (11) |
