| LOVEINIDLENESS | Also known as heartsease, the flower forming the basis of the elixir that bewitches Titania into fal |
| SNOWDROPS | Galanthophiles' esteemed "milk flowers" forming the collective blizzards, carpets, cheers, drifts, flurries, hopes, joys and nods by which they are whimsically known (9) |
| PANSY | Colorful flower also known as heartsease |
| IMPEL | Force the rascal to take a little of the elixir (5) |
| ALCHMIST | Seeker of the elixir of life |
| FERDINAND | Christian name of the 15th century ruler of Aragon who married Isabella of Castille, so forming the basis of modern Spain; and, also, the name of the son of the 13th/14th century King James II of Mall |
| REMUS | Legend says that the two founders of Rome were suckled by a she-wolf. The name of one of those brothers, Romulus, was the basis of the city's name. What was the other brother's name? |
| OUTFALL | Between the middle of July and the end of August, three people drowned in the Fal, where the river empties into the sea (7) |
| FLOUR | Forming the basis of bread, pastry and cake, milled cereal grains used as food by humans for the past 32,000 years (5) |
| ELGAR | Forming the basis of a long friendship, who was helped with technical details by the conductor W.H. Reed when he was commissioned by the violinist Fritz Kreisler to write Violin Concerto (1910)? (5) |
| KNOTS | Ornamental ribbons; units of nautica speed; or, fastened loops or hitches forming the basis of macrame (5) |
| ROLLO | Viking leader who received the district that formed the basis of the duchy of Normandy from Charles III of France (5) |
| STEPS | Sequences of foot movements forming the basis of dance patterns (5) |
| RIFF | A jazz ostinato or other repeated phrase forming the basis of a song (4) |
| VONTRAPP | Sumame of the Austrian singing family whose story formed the basis of the musical and film The Sound Of Music (3,5) |
| COSMIC | ____ web, a network of filaments of dark matter that may form the basis of the universe (6) |
| AMBROSIA | The food of the gods; the elixir of life (8) |
| TORMENTOR | Bully for the people behind The Hill forming the basis for a lawsuit briefly (9) |
| IDLENESS | Love-in-___, flower also known as the wild pansy or heartsease (8) |
| EPIGRAM | Farmyard animals forming the basis of English saying (7) |
