| LOVELIEST | '___ of trees, the cherry now, Is hung with bloom along the bough': A.E. Housman |
| CHERRY | "Loveliest of trees, the ___ now" (Housman) (6) |
| CORM | Meaning "trunk stripped of its boughs", a subterranean stem of a crocus, crocosmia, cyclamen, freesia gladiolus or meadow saffron, e.g. (4) |
| REDTIDES | Colorful blooms along the coast |
| SNODGER | "It was a ... day! The apple trees Was white with bloom. All things seemed good to me (Except that t |
| FOOTBALLMATCH | Chat with Bloom in flat about sporting event |
| CLUNGUNFORD | One of the four villages which "are the quietest places under the sun", according to A.E. Housman (11) |
| ONWENLOCKEDGE | A song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams that consists of settings of poems by A.E. Housman (2,7,4) |
| TAMBOURINE | Percussion instrument consisting of a single drumhead of skin stretched over a circular wooden frame hung with pairs of metal discs |
| ASHROPSHIRELAD | A collection of sixty-three poems by A E Housman published in 1896 |
| CROSSBILL | Finch that is a resident in the Balearic Islands where it likes to nest in pine trees, the Catalan name for this bird is trencapinyons, which means pine- nut cracker |
| LORAX | Animated film based on a Dr Seuss book about a forest creature who speaks for the trees, The ___ (5) |
| WALLFLOWER | Plant with blooms in all colours of the sunrise, often growing against an old brick or stone "murus" thus, a shy spectator, safely standing or sitting on the sidelines of social event (10) |
| LAD | 'A Shropshire --', series of nostalgic verses by A. E. Housman (3) |
| BROMSGROVE | Worcestershire town, birthplace of the poet A E Housman (10) |
| ALE | 'The stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think': A.E. Housman |
| ALES | "___ the stuff to drink / For fellows whom it hurts to think": A.E. Housman |
| BREDON | In summertime on / The bells they sound so clear (A. E. Housman) |
| LANYARD | Long piece of cord worn around the neck, on which an item such as a security pass is hung (7) |
| UGH | In the bough and the trug he found an exclamation of disgust! (3) |
