| BLACKCURRANT | Creme de cassis component |
| KIRS | Cocktails with creme de cassis |
| KIR | Creme de cassis aperitif |
| BURGUNDY | French wine region noted for its speciality creme de cassis (8) |
| HOLLYHOCK | Related to cotton, cacao and hibiscus, a self-sowing cottage garden plant with tall stems of cream, peach, scarlet or creme de cassis flowers (9) |
| BLACKCURRANTS | The liqueur creme de cassis is made from which fruit? (13) |
| ELDIABLO | Cocktail usually made with 52-Across, ginger beer, creme de cassis, and lime juice |
| CREME | ___ de cassis |
| GALLICA | An ancient or old-fashioned variety of fragrant bloom, such as the blush-pink Duchesse d'Angouleme, the cassis Cardinal de Richelieu or the crimson apothecary's rose, aka Officinalis or red rose of La |
| KIRDULLEA | Actor who likes cassis in his wine? |
| DESIST | Stop believer imbibing last of cassis |
| CURRANT | Cassis flavorer |
| CADELL | Francis ___, Scottish painter whose works include 1921's Roses at Cassis (6) |
| NARCISSUS | Beautiful youth makes cassis run all over the place (9) |
| HOOPSKIRT | Rounds with white wine and cassis primarily for Tara Farthingale (4,5) |
| PLAGA | Ictus, verbera, vulnus: a region: retia, cassis (usually pl.) |
| MINISKIRT | One's cassis cocktail soaks into brand-new garment |
| SOURCING | Finding a supply of bitter cassis initially popular with gin cocktail (8) |
| HELLEBORE | Known as a Lenten or winter rose, a flower in shades of mauve, pink, soft lime green, cassis or white, arranged in vintage-style wedding bouquets (9) |
| SKIER | One sliding on snow with small cassis drink laced with E (5) |