| ROSEBUSH | A Pembrokeshire village; or, a shrubby mass of centifolias, damasks, floribundas or related blooms (8) |
| ROSEBOWLS | Ornamental often-collectable crystal, opalescent, peach-blow, silver or Victorian glass vessels, either for freshly cut damasks, floribundas and hybrid teas or for dried potpourris (9) |
| BUSH | Historical bunch of ivy as a tavern's or vintner's sign; the wilds; or, a shrubby clump in which to lay wait in a surprise attack, for example (4) |
| OLDROSE | Soft-pink hue reminiscent of the colour of the heirloom or "antique" flowers including albas, centifolias, damasks and gallicas (3,4) |
| OLDROSES | Painted by Jan van Huysum and written about by Edward Bunyard, fragrant non-hybrid flowers such as the albas, centifolias, damasks and gallicas (3,5) |
| WICK | Old or dialect word for a creek, farm, hamlet or village; or, a cord that supplies fuel to a candle or oil lamp's flame by capillary action (4) |
| ROSARY | Word, from the Latin for a garden of floribundas, damasks or other such blooms, for a string of prayer beads (6) |
| ROSARIAN | Breeder of scented brier beauties, cultivator of fragrant floribundas, expert in eglantines, grower of grandifloras, propagator of hybrid teas, tender of velvety damasks or other such floriculturist o |
| HALL | Community building at the centre of a village; or, a country manor (4) |
| GOLDSMITH | Author of The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village ; or, a worker in the precious metal known in Latin as aurum (9) |
| TUTSAN | From Old French for "all healthy", "heal-all" or "wholesome", a shrubby species of St John's wort, also called parkleaves or sweet-amber and formerly regarded as a panacea (6) |
| ROSY | An old-fashioned word for wine that also means blushing, bright, hopeful or promising; abounding in flowers such as floribundas; pinkish or reddish, like said blooms; or, having a healthy glowing comp |
| BUSHFIRE | Dangerous conflagration in a shrubby or wooded area (4,4) |
| SLEEPY | Relating to "somnus", a word for drowsy or somnolent; inducing slumber; non-buzzing, quiet or sequestered, as in a little town/village; or, overripe and unjuicy, as in a pear (6) |
| MINSTREL | Travelling from village to village or employed by a royal court, a wandering medieval musician or troubadour (8) |
| ROSARIUM | Latin word for a garden devoted to fragrant flowers such as centifolias |
| PLACE | A public/market square; a town, village or other locality; or, one's seat in a restaurant, theatre, train etc (5) |
| ATTAR | Fragrant base for perfume extracted from the petals of damasks, often hand-picked before sunrise (5) |
| TOWN | Settlement smaller than a city but bigger than a village or hamlet (4) |
| ROSEPETAL | Real poet's written about a bit of a floribunda (4-5) |
