| OHARA | A double-flowering scarlet hollyhock... from ooh, Arabia! (1'4) |
| NOGREATSHAKES | Nothing to write home about? Sounds like a criticism of those living in Saudi Arabia! (2,5,6) |
| ALNASSR | Cristiano Ronaldo's new team based in Saudi Arabia! (2,5) |
| CORAL | A double-flowering orange-pink Dianthus - famously located off Queensland's coast? (5,4) |
| ALOHA | Hawaiian greeting for a vigorous climbing double-flowering rose (5) |
| ALCEA | Hollyhock genus - a lace variety (5) |
| ROSEA | Alcea ___ is the formal name for hollyhock (5) |
| STEMS | Hollyhock features |
| REEF | A double-flowering orange-pink Dianthus - famously located off Queensland's coast? (5,4) |
| LUPIN | One of the traditional herbaceous perennials used to form a cottage garden with delphiniums, foxgloves, hollyhocks, aquilegia etc (5) |
| PETUNIA | Tumbelina is a double-flowering, trailing form of this colourful annual (7) |
| NARISSA | A double-flowering snowdrop ... recycled as resin (7) |
| ORCA | An orange, double-flowering tulip... in Windsor Castle (4) |
| SEAFOAM | Fragrant, double-flowering white rose - 'Spume'? (3,4) |
| GEMINI | Double-flowering, lilac-blue clematis - Castor and Pollux (6) |
| CARNATION | Double-flowering cultivated variety of the clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus (9) |
| TAHITI | An orange-centred, double- flowering yellow Narcissus: 'Polynesian Island' (6) |
| WICK | A strip of porous material in wild hollyhock borders (4) |
| DELPHINIUM | Derived from the Latin meaning dolphin, a flower commonly called larkspur traditionally forming a herbaceous border with plants such as lupins, hollyhocks and foxgloves (10) |
| WASABI | Paste from mountain hollyhock used in Japanese cookery (6) |
