| BLOOMS | Flowers a follower put on weaving machinery |
| DEVOTEE | Follower put cross in river (7) |
| SATELLITE | Follower put the best line in (9) |
| LOOMS | Weaving machinery appears ominously close (5) |
| ENTOURAGE | Star followers put out a green form (9) |
| HEIRLOOMS | They are handed down in order to hire out weaving machinery (9) |
| BLOOM | A flower; a rosy colour; a healthy glow on one's cheeks; a fine powdery coating on chocolate, grapes or plums; or, a rapid seasonal flourish of algae (5) |
| GLOOM | Gang-leader on weaving machine may encounter despondency (5) |
| ELSINORE | Danish castle relies on weaving (8) |
| ABLOOM | Jack on weaving machine out in the garden perhaps (6) |
| DRIFT | Blanket of snowdrops, daffodils, bluebells or other flowers; a cattle drove road; a set of fishing nets; or, a collective noun for swans on water (5) |
| PIP | An apple seed; a single blossom in a cluster of flowers; a rootstock or rhizome of the lily of the valley; or, a Bath star (3) |
| IRIS | A woman a€“ a flower a€“ Everyman with chance? Almost (4) |
| NASTURTIUM | With edible flowers, a climbing plant often used as a companion for cabbage, kale and cauliflower, depicted in a painting by E. Phillips Fox (10) |
| STELLATA | A Magnolia species with star-shaped flowers - a tallest variety (8) |
| TRIUMPH | A Viburnum plicatum with white, snowball flowers - a total success (7) |
| BUTTERFLY | With wings reflected in a lupin, sweet pea or other papilionaceous flower, a lepidopteran such as a "dice-box" fritillary or the nymphalid originally called a "red admirable" (9) |
| COLOSSUS | In January 1943, Tommy Flowers, a Royal Post Office engineer, built this electronic machine to decipher a complex encryption system used by Hitler and the German High Command. |
| SORAYA | Award-winning sunflower with tangerine flowers - a bit of iris or a yarrow (6) |
| IMPLANTS | One million flowers a€“ these may enhance front a€“ or rear! (8) |
