| OBSCURE | Hazy smoke, perhaps, from a flower beginning to smoulder (7) |
| ACCORDS | Matches: a q-quantity of wood beginning to smoulder |
| SEETHELIGHT | Twig to smoulder fine (3,3,5) |
| ARDESCIS | You alone start to smoulder: NB affix ~sc~ is inchoate |
| KIDNEYS | Letter to Disney perhaps, from a couple in person (7) |
| BEELINE | Direct path, as from a flower to a hive |
| SAPPORO | Plant fluid runs out from a flower in Japan (7) |
| PETUNIA | Seems strange - tuna pie made from a flower |
| INCENSE | Anger that smoulders in church service (7) |
| CREEK | Little flower beginning to cause a bit of a stink (5) |
| TWEED | Flower beginning to turn on unwanted plant |
| TAY | Scottish flower beginning to thrive certainly (3) |
| BLOOM | Flower beginning to beautify thing used by weavers (5) |
| BUTTERUP | Indulge in 21, when yellow flower's beginning to come out |
| ADMISSION | "Mea culpa", perhaps, from a daughter with a calling (9) |
| GLISSANDI | Moves perhaps from A to B without stopping? (9) |
| HOOKAH | Pirate captain with a head start to the Oriental Big Smoke perhaps (6) |
| ANGEL | Article on Christmas tree, perhaps from a new set |
| MANITOBA | Thing coming across perhaps from a part of N America |
| PADDYFIELD | Fiddled pay, perhaps, from a rice-producer (5-5) |
