| FLORA | Goddess of flowers and plants (5) |
| IKEBANA | Japanese art, derived from Buddhism, of arranging flowers and plant material in harmonious forms |
| MOSER | Daughter of a Swiss goldsmith, the youngest founding member of the Royal Academy who painted Spring, Summer, Bouquet of Flowers and a room at Frogmore House (5) |
| SPRAY | Water in the form of a shower; or, a sprig of flowers and/or foliage (5) |
| TEPAL | Part of flower - and of date palm |
| SEEDS | Packets of flower and vegetable ___ are on store shelves (5) |
| BAMBI | Friend of Flower and Faline |
| RIVER | Represented as a blue line on an Ordnance Survey map, a natural type of watercourse inhabited by mammals, birds, fish insects and plants (5) |
| HUMUS | What are decomposed leaves and plants as a constituent of soil? (5) |
| FERAL | (Of animals and plants) existing in a wild or uncultivated state (5) |
| PHYLA | Animals and plants, say, observed during geography largely (5) |
| OASIS | A small area in a desert where water and plants are found (5) |
| FARMS | Plows and plants |
| TRANS | Prefix for fats and plants |
| SPIES | Moles and plants |
| SILLS | Places for pies and plants, perhaps |
| HORSE | And 26 Across Tree with palmate leaves, erect clusters of flowers and brown shiny inedible nuts enclosed in a spiky bur (5,8) |
| CARAVAGGIO | Artist born Michelangelo Merisi noted for still lifes of flowers and fruit, half-length figures such as The Boy Bitten by a Lizard and Bacchus and for decorating the Contarelli Chapel (10) |
| SPRAYS | Small bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages or nosegays of flowers and foliage; ornamental brooches resembling thus; or, clouds of flying droplets of scent or water (6) |
| GARLAND | An old word for a crown; a nautical coil or grommet of rope; a festoon or wreath of flowers and foliage; or, an anthology or florilegium of poems (7) |