| ELWES | Henry John ___, 19th-century snowdrop fanatic... hidden in laurel, Westonbirt (5) |
| HEINZ | Which US greengrocer (Henry John ___) began his empire by selling bottled vegetables in 1869? (5) |
| DEERE | John ___, 19th-century US inventor and manufacturer of agricultural implements based in Illinois (5) |
| KEATS | John ___, 19th-century poet (5) |
| PIANO | Prop in Laurel and Hardy's 'The Music Box' |
| COMET | A sturdy snowdrop with long outer segments - Halley's? (5) |
| MAIDS | 'Fair ___ of February' is one of many names for snowdrop (5) |
| GREEN | Describes snowdrops dug up after flowering, and in leaf, for immediate replanting (2,3,5) |
| INTHE | Describes snowdrops dug up after flowering, and in leaf, for immediate replanting (2,3,5) |
| BULBS | Underground parts of plants such as the crocus, dahlia, winter aconite, chionodoxa (glory-of-the-snow) snowdrop and narcissus (5) |
| WHITE | Colour of snowdrop blooms (5) |
| DRIFT | Group of swans on water; a swarm of honeybees in search of a new colony; a drove of cattle; or, a carpet of snowdrops (5) |
| DEIGN | Stoop to lift first of snowdrops from plot (5) |
| SHAKY | Sort of situation liked by e.g. snowdrops - dubious (5) |
| TYNDALL | John ___, 19th-century physicist who gave his name to an effect of light scattering by particles in a colloid or particles in a fine suspension |
| RAE | John ___, 19th-century Scottish explorer who authored the book Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea, in 1846 and 1847 (3) |
| PIE | Weapon in Laurel & Hardy's Battle of the Century |
| SPRAYTANS | Soft form of sunlight featuring in Laurel's beauty treatments (5,4) |
| RUELLIA | Genus of plants with petunia-fike flowers - I put in laurel arrangement (7) |
| ARBORETUM | A botanical garden devoted to trees, such as that in Westonbirt (9) |
