| AUBERON | 'The Foxglove Saga', a novel by -- Waugh (7) |
| JAMESHADLEYCHASE | No Orchids for Miss Blandish was a crime novel by ____ |
| ASSAGAI | Is saga a revolutionary instrument of war? (7) |
| CATHERINECOOKSON | The novels by ____were mostly set in her native South Tyneside |
| RIDERHAGGARD | She and Allan Quatermain are adventure novels by ____ |
| WAUGH | Novelist who wrote The Foxglove Saga, Who Are The Violets Now?, Consider the Lilies and A Bed of Flowers (5) |
| CAPSULE | Foil cap on a wine bottle's cork; seedcase of a foxglove, poppy or violet; or, with "time", a cache of items representative of contemporary life, buried for future discovery (7) |
| SPOTTED | As the throats of foxglove flowers may be... espied? (7) |
| DIGITAL | Bits evenly removed from foxglove with a finger (7) |
| DIGOXIN | Compound present in foxgloves, used as a cardiac stimulant (7) |
| GARDENS | Disturbing dangers where toxic plants like laburnum and foxgloves grow (7) |
| RACEME | From the Latin for "bunch of grapes", an inflorescence or panicle characteristic of a plant such as the foxglove, lupin or snapdragon (6) |
| VERONICA | Plant of the foxglove family in a cover, oddly (8) |
| DIGITALIS | The foxglove genus adds bright colour to the summer garden (9) |
| PLANTAIN | Plant in the order Lamiales, such as the foxglove or snapdragon (8) |
| DEADMENSBELLS | Another name for the foxglove (4,4,5) |
| DIGITALIN | Powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from the foxglove (9) |
| EVELYN | British writer of the comic novel Black Mischief ,_ Waugh (6) |
| SPIRE | Steeple; blade of grass; apex of a shell such as that of the periwinkle; or, a towering stem of a flower such as a delphinium or foxglove (5) |
| HONOUR | Sword of _, Waugh trilogy (6) |
