| DANDELIONYN | *Ray Bradbury novel or a beverage made from flowers |
| CIDER | A beverage made from juice pressed from apples (5) |
| WINE | Rich dark-red colour; or, a beverage made in the process of viniculture and sold by a vintner (4) |
| WICKED | "Something ___ This Way Comes" (Ray Bradbury novel) (6) |
| THEHISTORYMAN | Malcolm Bradbury novel featuring the character Howard Kirk (3,7,3) |
| TEATIME | Appointed hour for a meal or a beverage (7) |
| LEMONADE | Beyonce album or a beverage (8) |
| TEA | A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water. |
| PROLOGUE | Meaning "before word", a prefatory speech or section as an introduction to a play, poem or novel; or, a time trial before a stage race in road cycling (8) |
| LEI | It may be made from flowers or bird's feathers |
| MAHWA | Raising this liquor made from flowers is a big hit |
| JUMP | Descent by a parachutist; a Jilly Cooper novel; or, a sudden rise (4) |
| CHARTREUSE | Liqueur made from flowers and herbs that is green or yellow in colour (10) |
| POPPIES | Dad's pastries are made from flowers! (7) |
| VELVET | Flower painter Jan Brueghel the Elder's nickname; a character in an Enid Bagnold novel; or, a close-cut pile textile traditionally sold by a mercer (6) |
| ROMAN | Plain upright type as distinguished from italic and Gothic; a novel; or, a medieval romance (5) |
| FARFROMTHEMADDINGCROWD | Thomas Hardy novel or a quote from Gray's Elegy |
| TITLE | A novel or a movie's name |
| ATTAR | Perfume made from flowers |
| PELHAM | Prime minister from 1743-54; Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel; or, a type of bit (6) |
