| AURICULA | A primrose having a golden quality Dulac discovered |
| ALADDIN | Depicted in illustrations by Edmund Dulac and animations by Disney, a character whose adventures are described by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights (7) |
| GILT | Having a golden colour |
| EVENING | What can be a gown, a star or a primrose? (7) |
| OPHELIA | "Hamlet" character who speaks of a primrose path |
| IMPRESARIO | A primrose I cultivated for entertainment manager (10) |
| COWSLIP | Did a farm animal accidentally trip over a primrose? (7) |
| PORTRAITURE | Golden quality in perfect works of art (11) |
| OXLIP | Perennial resembling a primrose |
| BIRDSEYE | A fermata; a kind of primrose, speedwell, tobacco or other plant with flowers of two contrasting colours; a small yet fiery red chilli pepper; a pattern of spotted diamonds; or, a term denoting a view |
| SILENCE | Golden quality |
| CRADOCK | Nee Phyllis Nan Sortain Primrose Pechey, a flamboyant television chef who donned a ball-gown rather than an apron, popularised prawn cocktail and penned a number of novels, including her Castle Rising |
| CYCLAMEN | A plant of the primrose family popular as a pot plant (8) |
| YELLOW | From or related to "gold, light bay" and the word for the vitellus of a single- or double-yolker, the name of a xanthous colour ranging in hue from pale lemon and primrose to deep earthy mustard and o |
| SUE | Primula '___ Jervis' is a pretty double-flowered primrose (3) |
| PALMA | Venetian painter born Jacopo Negretti, whose many portraits of ladies includes one of a blonde woman holding a posy of buttercups, forget-me-nots and primroses (5) |
| CAPE | Streptocarpus is the ___ primrose! (4) |
| PIMPERNEL | Primrose with elusive scarlet variety |
| ONAGRA | Early evening primrose in Verona graveyard |
| PRIMULAS | Primrose and oxlip, for example (8) |