| SNODGER | "It was a ... day! The apple trees Was white with bloom. All things seemed good to me (Except that t |
| WATSON | "The more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that t |
| SIGH | [Things seemed to be going so well] |
| ASI | "As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young _ _ _ ever did." -Robert Benchley |
| LOVELIEST | '___ of trees, the cherry now, Is hung with bloom along the bough': A.E. Housman |
| GUMP | Couldn't see the wood for the trees was this wacky Hanks character, if you please. (4) |
| ELM | A group of ___ trees was the reason for the name of London's Seven Sisters district |
| EVEREST | Where Hillary was a day before the others? (7) |
| COLOMBIA | The CIA bloom all over the South American state |
| CITADEL | “Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! / The frontier town and ____ of night!” (Longfellow, Two Rivers) |
| LILAC | Rupert Brooke was impressed by what flower "in bloom, All before my little room..." (5) |
| TULSA | Gene Pitney was a day away from there (5) |
| IDIED | "___ that day!" ("The Princess Bride" line) |
| FOOTBALLMATCH | Chat with Bloom in flat about sporting event |
| FIREBALL | Shaggy-domed bergamot with scarlet blooms - all fibre, possibly (8) |
| ULEX | Genus of spiny evergreen shrubs with bright yellow, pealike blooms all year round (4) |
| FLORAL | Of blooms; all for (anag.) (6) |
| ICOME | Marilyn Hutton sang with Glenn Miller & his Orchestra, "Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me; Till ...marchin' home" (1,4) |
| MARY | She has a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow, and who was sure to go wherever she went |
| ORCHARD | Garden for the cultivation of fruit, sometimes with flourishing mistletoe due to the presence of wild apple trees (7) |
