| UNHIP | Following the United Nations, the fruit of a rose is not cool! (5) |
| INSTORE | Damaged case of rose is not available for purchase? (2-5) |
| ULNA | In the United Nations, the French point the bone as it were (4) |
| ERITREA | Country admitted to the United Nations the same day as Monaco |
| STEIN | Writer whose poem Sacred Emily features the line "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"; or, a type of beer mug (5) |
| AKEES | The fruit of a small African tree, now common in the West Indies (5) |
| NAIVE | A bit innocent to take the fruit of a vine (5) |
| DATES | The fruits of a tree of the Arecaceae family (5) |
| PEARS | The fruit of a lobster's egg (5) |
| GERTRUDE | "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, is a rose," wrote ... Stein |
| TONGA | Captain Cook called this Pacific island nation the Friendly Isles |
| GERTRUDESTEIN | US writer (1874-1946) who in the 1913 Poem Sacred Emily wrote Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose (8,5) |
| SYRIA | Nation the Euphrates flows through |
| NAURU | Pacific island nation, the smallest sovereign state outside Europe |
| DHOTI | Sad it's gone? Not cool, Vlad's loincloth (5) |
| SURER | Underwriter not cool but more certain (5) |
| CHESS | Game where it's not cool to call some pieces "horses" |
| BLOSSOM | A flower or mass of flowers preceding the fruit of a rosaceous tree, such as the almond, apple, cherry, peach or plum; or, the state or season of such efflorescence (7) |
| CLOSE | Not cool |
| HUMID | Not cool |
