| SPINK | Folk name, echoing its perfect fine flower of a call, for a charming songbird that binds its nest with spider webs and is commonly called a chaffinch (5) |
| FINCH | Element of disbelief in charming songbird (5) |
| APRETTYPENNY | Lots of money for a charming writer from American city (1,6,5) |
| OLDLOU | Nickname for a charming area of the Kentucky Derby city |
| NAAFI | Verbena, a fine flower, as in the Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes! (1,1,1,1,1) |
| DAFF | Fancy pulling up fine flower (4) |
| REFINE | Improve, perfect , fine-tune (6) |
| ESS | Start of a call for help |
| NINE | Start of a call for help |
| DISTRESSSIGNAL | Girl to emphasise remarkable indication of a call for help (8,6) |
| ONEONE | Two-thirds of a call for help |
| CRAMBO | Name, echoing Juvenal's phrase "cabbage served up again", for an old game of guessing and rhymes (6) |
| PROST | F1 "Professor's" name echoing a German "cheers!" (5) |
| FRILLIES | Underwear that is covered with fine flowers (8) |
| SCAVENGE | Search small grotto and say name echoing (8) |
| DANDELIONS | Fine flowers that never roar? |
| ORCHIDS | Fine flowers unravelled his cord (7) |
| POMPON | From the Old French for "knot of ribbons", a tufted ball or bobble of silk or wool; a cluster of tinsel for cheerleading; or, a globe-like flower of a chrysanthemum or dahlia (6) |
| SPINNER | Folk name for a nightjar; a trout lure; a rapidly rotating cricket ball delivered by a bowler of the same name; or, a whirligig (7) |
| ROSE | Flower of a plant related to apples; a diamond cut with facets mimicking said bloom's petals; a soft pink colour; a knot of ribbon on a shoe; or, a marigold window or oeil-de-boeuf (4) |
