| DIANTHUS | Genus which includes pinks and sweet william |
| CITRUS | Genus which includes orange and lemon (6) |
| BRASSICA | Genus which includes cabbages, cauliflowers and turnips (8) |
| PASTELS | Pinks and peaches and lilacs |
| ARMERIA | Perennial genus of the sea pinks and thrift (7) |
| AECHMEA | Bromeliad genus, which includes the urn plant and silver vase plant (7) |
| ERICA | Shrub of the genus which includes the heaths and some heathers (5) |
| MULTIPARAE | Plants of a genus which includes the moss rose and purslane (10) |
| LINUM | Genus which includes the cultivated flax (5) |
| NARCISSI | Plants of a genus which includes daffodils (8) |
| LONICERA | Genus which includes the honeysuckle |
| APHIS | Insect genus which includes the greenfly |
| OXALIS | Plant genus which includes wood sorrel (6) |
| ACER | Tree of a genus which includes the maples (4) |
| NATIONS | Vehicle pulling out pinks and races |
| CANNA | So-called lily genus, which includes the species known as Indian shot (5) |
| SWEETWILLIAM | Spicy-scented flower related to pinks and carnations, Dianthus barbatus (5,7) |
| MELTON | Cloth named after its pork pie-producing, "paint the town red" place of origin, traditionally used for black hunt jackets, pinks and overcoats (6) |
| BAINBRIDGE | Liverpudlian author whose novels include The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William, A Quiet Life and An Awfully Big Adventure (adapted into a film starring Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant) (10) |
| PINK | A minnow; a coastal fishing boat; a tinkling sound; a chaffinch; the gillyflower allied to the carnation, Cheddar Gorge "firewitch", sweet william and other "flowers of Zeus" in the genus Dianthus or, |
