| LEAFAGE | General hides a cigarette in the greenery (7) |
| LAFAYETTE | French General hides sweet nothing in baby's clothes (9) |
| DEANMARTIN | Founder member of the Rat Pack, he was the epitome of cool on his TV show with a martini in one hand and a cigarette in the other (4,6) |
| HERBAGE | Catch in here, in the greenery (7) |
| VERDURE | Mostly overdue, right inside the greenery (7) |
| PUCCINI | Stealing church organ parts to buy cigarettes in his youth, a composer of 12 operas, including Madama Butterfly and Tosca, who became the richest musician of his era (7) |
| REEFERS | Illegal cigarettes in most states, slangily |
| GASPERS | Cigarettes, in British slang |
| VICTORY | Brand name for gin and cigarettes in Orwell’s 1984 |
| BLADES | Word that began in the greenery as leaves but ended in the weaponry as knives, sharp edges and swords (6) |
| COMPRESS | Condense to "A pom frisking in the greenery" (8) |
| HABITAT | Bearskin hides a part of the animal's environment (7) |
| WHARFAGE | Point to Burke's accomplice, holding cigarette, in the dock (8) |
| MASCARA | Mother hides a blemish, using this? (7) |
| EASTEND | Journalist hides a gun in part of London (4,3) |
| LEAKAGE | Shoddy ale keg hides a fault. (7) |
| ETHANOL | Shabby hotel hides a new drug (7) |
| REACTOR | Clergyman hides a nuclear device (7) |
| ANDYCAPP | Which comic strip character, launched in 1957, no longer has a cigarette in his mouth? (4,4) |
| REBUTTAL | Last of a cigarette, in true denial (8) |
