| EECUMMINGS | "Tulips and Chimneys" author |
| CUMMINGS | E E ___, US poet whose volumes include 1923's Tulips and Chimneys (8) |
| STEEPLEJACKS | People who are trained and skilled in the construction and repair of tall towers, spires and chimneys (12) |
| SOOT | A black substance formed by combustion or separated from fuel during combustion, rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of pipes and chimneys. (4) |
| EDWARDESTLIN | Author of "tulips and c" |
| BULBS | Underground sections of snowdrops, tulips and grape hyacinths or narcissi such as daffodils and pape |
| GRANT | Introduced to the Bloomsbury Set by his cousin Lytton Strachey, an artist who painted Still Life with Tulips and Narcissi in a Jug and Spring Flowers, Charleston (5) |
| PARTED | Pruned around top of tulips and separated |
| FLORAL | Of tulips and roses |
| PERENNIALS | Tulips and dahlias |
| NETHERLANDS | Country famous for tulips and windmills (11) |
| BULB | Underground storage organ of tulips and hyacinths (4) |
| LIGHTBULBS | Lamp inserts pale tulips and daffodils (5,5) |
| FLORIAN | Patron saint of firefighters and chimney sweeps (7) |
| COWL | Hood for monk and chimney |
| SILVOUSPLAIT | The French please with a mixture of tulips and violas (3,4,5) |
| ANEMONES | "Annelies, White Tulips, and ___": 1944 oil painting by Henri Matisse |
| SCAPES | Related to "sceptres", word for shafts, stalks or stems of various things, including amaryllises, chives, columns, feathers, garlic plants, hostas, tulips and weevils' antennae (6) |
| PIMPERNEL | Style of wallpaper designed by William Morris with large tulips and curling leaves (9) |
| FANTASY | Dream Santa comes unstuck between roof and chimney ultimately |
