| STEIN | Gertrude who wrote "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" |
| 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) |
| RUDYARDKIPLING | He wrote, 'Roses red and roses white / Plucked I for my love's delight' |
| GERTRUDE | "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, is a rose," wrote ... Stein |
| TAUTOLOGY | "Rose is a rose is a rose." |
| ROBERTFROST | He wrote, 'The rose is a rose, / And was always a rose' |
| JEKYLL | Plantswoman, Gertrude, who is immortalised as a pink English rose (6) |
| BEASLEY | Feminist Gertrude who wrote "My First Thirty Years" |
| STILLA | Aretha Franklin "A Rose Is ___ Rose" |
| EROS | A rose is carried by a young lover |
| EDERLE | Gertrude, who swam the English Channel on August 6, 1926 |
| LOSER | Figure the new variety of rose is a non prize winner (5) |
| GORSE | By the end of spring, hybrid rose is a prickly bush (5) |
| STEM | A rose's is thorny |
| BLOOMER | Rose is a product of the bakery (7) |
| APPLETREE | One of the Roses is a cider producer (5,4) |
| BOUQUET | From "bush, wood", word for a clump of arbors originally, now a bunch of flowers; the aroma, nose or perfume of a fragrance/scent, liqueur or wine; a compliment or expression of praise; or, a rose/wed |
| PETALS | After a week or two in a vase, a rose starts to lose its ___ |
| COMPASS | A navigational device known as a rose when depicted on a map (7) |
| PASTOR | From Latin for "shepherd, feeder", a cleric considered the shepherd of a flock; or, a rose-coloured starling (6) |
