| PROLONGS | Deadheading, in most cases, ___ the flowering season (8) |
| CDS | Sleeves : records :: cases : ___ |
| SAFFRON | Meadow -; the plant "naked ladies" whose other name "autumn crocus" indicates its flowering season and visual appearance (7) |
| SPRING | Flowering season of 7 dn (6) |
| ABSENTIA | The Sixth Amendment prevents trials in it, in most cases |
| NORMALLY | In most cases, helper follows rule (8) |
| SCENARIO | Worst case ____, phrase meaning 'the most serious thing that could happen in a situation' (8) |
| MIQUELIA | Genus in the flowering plant family Icacinaceae (8) |
| OLEANDER | Cheer queen, also in the flowering shrub (8) |
| TITANIUM | Bird brain's case ___ without credit, it's "elementary" (8) |
| ABUTILON | Large genus of approximately 150 species of broadleaf evergreens in the family Malvaceae that includes the flowering maple |
| CAMELLIA | Email Cal about the flowering shrub (8) |
| JAPONICA | Common name of the flowering quince, which came orig. from Japan (8) |
| WISTERIA | As I write badly about the flowering vine (8) |
| HAREBELL | Corrected her label for the flowering plant (8) |
| HIBISCUS | Memsahib is custodian of the flowering shrub (8) |
| PRIMROSE | The flowering plant Primula vulgaris |
| USUALLY | In most cases, excursion takes in university after university (7) |
| IMPOST | In most cases it carries the weight (6) |
| ASAGENERALRULE | Like a commander, be in charge in most cases (2,1,7,4) |
