| CORNFLOWERS | Blue-petalled "hurtsickles" or "bachelor's-buttons" of wheatfields or meadows, whose Latin designation, Centaurea cyanus, refers to said blooms' legendary use as healing herbs by the centaur Chiron (1 |
| FEVERFEW | Plant known as "medieval aspirin" or "bachelor's-buttons" with flowers used for potpourri and leaves used as a folk remedy for headaches (8) |
| CORNFLOWER | The blue-petalled Centaurea cyanus, seen in meadows (10) |
| PRAIRIESCENERY | Wheatfields in Manitoba and Grasslands in Saskatchewan, as examples of the beauty of this: 2 wds. |
| NASH | Painter of English rural scenes such as Autumn Berkshire, Winter Evening, Wormingford and The Flooded Meadow whose brother Paul was a member of the Slade School of Fine Art (4) |
| GODWIT | A wader of marsh, mire, mudflat or water meadow, whose genus, Limosa, suitably translates as "muddy" (6) |
| COWNFLOWERS | With edible petals used in tea blends, blue blooms known as bachelor's buttons; botanical symbols of Estonia and of remembrance in France (11) |
| KERRIA | Spring-flowering shrub, - - -japonica, commonly called Bachelor's buttons (6) |
| FLOWERAGE | A somewhat rare or poetic word for a bud's blooming, blossoming or burgeoning forth; or, an efflorescent mass of buttercups, daisies, pansies, pinks, roses, violets or other petalled "anthos" of garde |
| NONPAREIL | Word for something regarded as unequalled, such as a painted bunting; a fine russet apple; or, one of "hundreds and thousands" of rainbow- coloured sprinkles used to decorate a chocolate button of the |
| EYESPOT | An ocellus on the train of a peacock or wing of a butterfly such as a gatekeeper or meadow-brown (3-4) |
| JAYNE | Old-time actress Mansfield or Meadows |
| AUDREY | Hepburn or Meadows |
| TIM | Burton or Meadows |
| ABOWLOFCHERRIES | Cushy situation (or bachelor's dallying with wife) (1,4,2,8) |
| CORM | Meaning "trunk stripped of its boughs", a subterranean stem of a crocus, crocosmia, cyclamen, freesia gladiolus or meadow saffron, e.g. (4) |
| RED | Buttons of "The Poseidon Adventure" |
| BAITS | Pushes the buttons of, say |
| UNDO | Release the buttons of |
| UNBUTTON | Undo the buttons of (8) |
