| LADYSSMOCK | County flower of Cheshire blooming around the time the cuckoo starts to call in April, hence its alternative name (5-5) |
| PRIMROSE | Native British woodland plant with rosettes of yellow or cream petals; county flower of Devon, food of the caterpillars of the rare Duke of Burgundy butterfly (8) |
| OXLIP | Growing almost exclusively in ancient boulder clay woodlands in areas where Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire meet, the county flower of Suffolk (5) |
| RAGGEDROBIN | A campion in bloom during the months when cuckoos call, hence the latter part of its Latin name floscuculi meaning "flower of the cuckoo" (6,5) |
| THRIFT | Used as the county flower of the Scilly Isles, a plant known as sea pink and lady's cushion found along seashores, cliffs, craggy islands and in coastal gardens (6) |
| OXLIPS | Related to primroses, mentioned in A Midsummer Night's Dream and listed as "near threatened" in Britain, the county flowers of Suffolk (6) |
| BEEORCHIDS | Grassland flowers resembling the bodies of waggle-dancing insects; the county flowers of Bedfordshire (3,7) |
| CAPITALOFZAIRE | Z (By the way, I made this puzzle in mid-May 1997 when the country was still called this, and by the time the puzzle came out in newspapers just two weeks later, the country's name had been changed. |
| SINGER | ___ Building, company headquarters erected in 1908 in New York City, at the time the tallest building in the world |
| JETAGE | Commercially, it started in the U.S. around the time of the Boeing 707 launch |
| UNTIL | Up to the time the United Nations starts to talk in Lebanon (5) |
| THEREIS | 1968 hit by the Dells whose title precedes "the time," "the place," "the girl" and "the face" |
| ESSENE | Member of an ascetic Jewish group of Palestine and Syria living around the time of Jesus (6) |
| TOBACCO | To reversing taxi, starts to call out: 'Put that in your pipe and smoke it!' (7) |
| FOXGLOVE | County flower of Leicestershire chosen by the charity Plantlife (8) |
| TOSCA | Puccini opera set around the time of the Battle of 17A |
| GAUGUIN | Surname of the French artist who was with Van Gogh around the time he cutoff his ear (7) |
| AFTERTHEFALL | When was Humpty Dumpty in hospital? Presumably around the time Adam and Eve left the garden! (5,3,4) |
| SEALE | Bobby who wrote "a€‹Seize the Time: The Story of The Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton" |
| WHENHARRY | The time the Prince bumped into Miss Field in the movie - w 7dn (4,5,3,5) |
