| ABLOOM | In bloom (6) |
| FLOWERING | In bloom |
| OUT | In bloom |
| LIMPLY | Politician is in bloom in a slack sort of way (6) |
| FLOWER | Be in bloom (6) |
| ORCHID | There's nothing free with church in bloom (6) |
| ALCOTT | Author of the Little Women series of novels as well as Flower Fables, A Garland for Girls, Rose in Bloom and Under the Lilacs (6) |
| NATURE | Character's name for maiden in bloom? |
| EYES | In The Anniversary Song Al Jolson sang, "The world was in bloom, there were stars in the skies; Except for the few that were there in your ..." |
| REMINDS | "The sage in bloom; Is like perfume; Deep in the heart of Texas; ... me of; The one I love; Deep in |
| THEHOFTEXAS | Where "sage in bloom is like perfume," in song |
| FLORIDA | State whose name means "in bloom" in Spanish |
| BRITAIN | Last year, Hunstanton won a gold award in the annual RHS ... in Bloom awards, Coastal category (7) |
| OUTMODED | Old fashioned type in bloom and in vogue on Dunmore Head (8) |
| TULIP | In Paris, for instance, left one plant initially in bloom (5) |
| PEAR | Tree in bloom in a Van Gogh painting |
| FLOWERBED | Plot to find place of retirement in bloom, at first (6,3) |
| RAGGEDROBIN | A campion in bloom during the months when cuckoos call, hence the latter part of its Latin name floscuculi meaning "flower of the cuckoo" (6,5) |
| GORSE | From "stand on end, bristle", "barley" and "hedgehog", the prickly evergreen furze or whin that, according to folklore, when in bloom with golden papilionaceous flowers, kissing is said to be in seaso |
| CAT | Bill in "Bloom County," e.g. |
