| AURICULA | Alpine primula also called bear's-ear or dusty-miller (8) |
| ACANTHUS | Genus of prickly-leafed plants also called bear's breeches (8) |
| NICKNAME | Prison staff returning drug to Chalky or Dusty, say (8) |
| FLOURISH | Prosper like Dusty Miller? (8) |
| TEDDYBOY | He is a fifties youth called "Bear", son (5,3) |
| CYCLAMEN | Relative of the primula commonly called sow bread (8) |
| PRIMROSE | Common name of Primula vulgaris (8) |
| COWICHAN | Primula cultivars with glowing colours - now a chic variety (8) |
| ROSECAMPION | The European plant Lychnis coronaria, also called dusty miller |
| ILOVETRASH | "Sesame Street" song with the lyric "Anything dirty or dingy or dusty" |
| SEARAGWORT | Another name for the plant Jacobaea maritima, also known as dusty miller |
| ARUMLILY | Exotic primulas discovered beside large unknown plant (4,4) |
| PUCE | From "flea colour", a shade of brownish purple or dusty rose (4) |
| COBWEB | Old or dusty spider's trap (6) |
| UTAH | Home of Bears Ears National Monument |
| KOALA | Kind of a lovely animal leads to a so-called bear (5) |
| UTE | Bears Ears National Monument tribe |
| OXLIP | Name, evocative of a bovine fipple or mouth, of the pretty butter-yellow woodland primula or "cow slime" paigle, now mainly only found in England's east or south (5) |
| COWSLIP | From distorted Old English for "ox dung", the cheery yellow paigle or "key of heaven" wild flower of meadow or pasture, Primula veris (7) |
| OXLIPS | Flowers also known as primula elatior (6) |
