| ROSE | Flower in a Gertrude Stein poem |
| AROSE | Start of a Gertrude Stein quote: 2-wds |
| TENDERBUTTONS | Gertrude Stein book with the line "There is no use at all in a smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything . . ." |
| NOD | A slight bow or dip of the head; a sway of a flower in a breeze; or, alluding to a Genesiac land, a nap (3) |
| KNOT | A bend, bow, hitch, tie or other entwinement; a cluster of people; a maze-like pattern of flowers in a formal garden; a rosette; or, a tangle of hair (4) |
| AROSEISAROSE | Truism based on a line by Gertrude Stein |
| ALICE | Gertrude Stein's companion in Paris, ... B Toklas |
| ABERDEEN | A flower in a Swiss city, a granite one (8) |
| ALICEB | The Autobiography of ___ _. Toklas (1933 Gertrude Stein book) |
| GETSIN | Initially, Gertrude Stein possibly is admitted (4,2) |
| TOKLAS | The Autobiography of Alice b. ___ (1933 Gertrude Stein book) |
| ALLA | "You are ___ lost generation" (Gertrude Stein) |
| PABLO | Picasso who painted Gertrude Stein |
| LOST | Like generation described by Gertrude Stein |
| AGE | "We are always the same ___ inside": Gertrude Stein |
| THINGSASTHEYARE | Three-part novel by Gertrude Stein |
| THREELIVES | First published book by American writer Gertrude Stein (5,5) |
| ALAS | "Pigeons on the grass, ___" (rhyming Gertrude Stein lyric) |
| PROSEPOET | Gertrude Stein, for one |
| SALON | Gertrude Stein's reception room |
