| CUMMINGS | E.e., poet who authored 1923 volume Tulips and Chimneys (8) |
| HOUSMAN | A. E. -; poet and classical scholar who wrote A Shropshire Lad (7) |
| EECUMMINGS | US poet and painter who wrote The Enormous Room in 1922 and Tulips and Chimneys a year later (1,1,8) |
| SMOKEBOX | Chamber in a boiler between the flues and chimney (8) |
| ANEMONES | "Annelies, White Tulips, and ___": 1944 oil painting by Henri Matisse |
| STEEPLEJACKS | People who are trained and skilled in the construction and repair of tall towers, spires and chimneys (12) |
| SOOT | A black substance formed by combustion or separated from fuel during combustion, rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of pipes and chimneys. (4) |
| RILKE | Rainer Maria ___, Prague___born poet whose works include 1923 volume Duino Elegies (5) |
| CHOOSIER | Rather fussy maker of stocking, including zip, put under chimney's opening (8) |
| STACKSUP | Follows logically from vertical chimneys? (6,2) |
| FURNACES | Chimneys |
| SWEEPERS | Chimneys |
| GRANT | Introduced to the Bloomsbury Set by his cousin Lytton Strachey, an artist who painted Still Life with Tulips and Narcissi in a Jug and Spring Flowers, Charleston (5) |
| BULBS | Underground sections of snowdrops, tulips and grape hyacinths or narcissi such as daffodils and pape |
| PARTED | Pruned around top of tulips and separated |
| SILVOUSPLAIT | The French please with a mixture of tulips and violas (3,4,5) |
| NETHERLANDS | Country famous for tulips and windmills (11) |
| BULB | Underground storage organ of tulips and hyacinths (4) |
| PIMPERNEL | Style of wallpaper designed by William Morris with large tulips and curling leaves (9) |
| LIGHTBULBS | Lamp inserts pale tulips and daffodils (5,5) |
