| CELANDINE | A wood anemone-like plant that was William Wordsworth's favourite flower (9) |
| HEPATICA | Plant of the buttercup family with anemone-like flowers (8) |
| LAKE | Wordsworth's favourite water colour? (4) |
| OLIVETREE | Plant that was a gift from Athena |
| BUTTERCUP | Yellow wild flower Ranunculus in the family that includes delphiniums, marsh marigolds, lesser celandines aconites and wood anemones (9) |
| DEQUINCEY | Critic and essayist who references his occupancy at his friend William Wordsworth's former house, Dove Cottage, in his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (2,7) |
| COLUMBINE | Harlequin's favourite flower (9) |
| GLADIOLUS | Dame Edna Everage's favourite flower (9) |
| MARYARDEN | Youngest of eight daughters, she had eight children herself, one of whom was William Shakespeare (4,5) |
| PRIMROSES | Benjamin Disraeli's favourite flowers (9) |
| PRIMULA | Plant of a genus that includes cowslips, polyanthuses and Benjamin Disraeli's favourite flower (7) |
| RYDAL | Village in the Lake District, location of William Wordsworth's family home after Dove Cottage, where Dora's Field was planted and he wrote a final version of "Daffodils" (5) |
| RIPVANWINKLE | Rent vehicle plant that was dormant for a long period (3,3,6) |
| HEATHER | Plant that was a top-five girl's name in the 1970s |
| SEDGE | A grass-like plant that grows in wet ground (5) |
| SHAMROCK | A clover-like plant that is the national emblem of the Irish Republic (8) |
| UNTRODDEN | Don turned off, such are Wordsworth's ways (9) |
| BLANDA | Anemone - - - - - - or wood anemone often naturalised under trees (6) |
| BUSH | Plant that was in the White House (4) |
| LICHEN | A type of tiny moss-like plant that grows on the surface of rocks and trees (6) |
