| REDWING | Euphorbia cultivar sharing its name with a winter-visiting thrush (7) |
| FIELDFARE | Winter-visiting thrush related to the redwing, often forming a flock in the countryside (9) |
| SNOWJOB | An attempt at flattery to deceive with a winter slopes position (4,3) |
| SHRIKE | Winter-visiting, predatory 'butcher bird' (6) |
| ERMINE | Weasel with a winter coat |
| WHITNEY | Gladiolus cultivar sharing its name with ' ------- Houston', late US songstress (7) |
| SAMBA | Penstemon 'Summer - - - - -', a cultivar sharing its name with a Brazilian dance (5) |
| NYMPH | Gladiolus cultivar sharing its name with a mythical creature of forests, rivers and mountains (5) |
| CAPRI | Prostrate rosemary cultivar sharing its name with a Bay of Naples isle (5) |
| DRAKE | Ulmus parvifolia, Chinese elm cultivar sharing its name with a 16th century English explorer (5) |
| HIDCOTE | Gloucestershire National Trust garden sharing its name with a lavender (7) |
| FERRARI | James Hype and Miggy Dela Rosa's hit sharing its name with a car (7) |
| ADAM | Monarda cultivar sharing its name with the Bible's first man (4) |
| ORINOCO | '___ Flow', variety of iris sharing its name with Enya's debut hit (7) |
| POPCORN | Snack sharing its name with a 1996 novel by Ben Elton |
| CURACAO | Liqueur sharing its name with an island |
| RUDOLPH | A Euphorbia with bright-red shoot lips in winter - 'Reindeer'? (7) |
| GLAMOUR | A Euphorbia graminea with small, airy white flowers - 'Allure'? (7) |
| TINYTIM | Dwarf evergreen euphorbia with red stems - featured in A Christmas Carol (4,3) |
| MARTINI | Dwarf, evergreen euphorbia: Bond preferred it shaken? (7) |