| WALTZ | "___ of the flowers |
| OURLADY | ___ of the Flowers, Jean Genet novel (3,4) |
| KILLERS | ___ of the Flower Moon: lengthy 2023 lm about a series of murders in 1920s Oklahoma (7) |
| NYMPHS | Mythical nature deities such as the anthousai of the flowers, dryads of the trees, oreads of the mountains or nereids of the sea (6) |
| THENUTCRACKER | Tchaikovsky's ballet that includes The Waltz Of The Flowers and The Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (3 |
| WHITE | Colour of the flowers of lily of the valley, Solomon's seal, snowdrops, ramsons and wood sorrel (5) |
| BED | The place for the rest of the flowers |
| HARP | Instrument featured in the opening of 'Waltz of the Flowers' |
| PINK | Colour of a snooker ball worth six points or of the flowers of thrift (4) |
| TAKESALONGWALKER | Borrows "The Color Purple" from the library instead of "The Flowers"? |
| GENET | Jean, author of the novel Our Lady of the Flowers (5) |
| BLUE | Colour of the flowers of Endymion (4) |
| NUTCRACKERSUITE | With "The," Tchaikovsky work that ends with "Waltz of the Flowers" |
| ENGLISHROSES | General name of the flowers bred by David Austin; or, prefixed with "The", a children's picture book by Madonna (7,5) |
| RED | Usual colour of the flowers of this week's Miscellany subjects (3) |
| PETAL | Each of the parts of the flower's corolla |
| IRIS | One of the flowers from Trim, in a manner of speaking (4) |
| ROSA | Italian word for pink; or the genus or Latin name of the flowers that were bred by David Austin (4) |
| POPART | One of the flowers given to actress for body of work that has a commercial aspect (3,3) |
| PRIMULA | One of the flowers Paul arranged around the border (7) |
