| RAMBLERROSE | It s a blooming prickly thing, ' so the walker got up! (7,4) |
| RAMBLER | The blooming thing is prickly, so the walker got up! (7,4) |
| ROSE | The blooming thing is prickly, so the walker got up! (7,4) |
| CHRISTMAS | Common name of Schlumbergera plant - blooming prickly at Yuletide! (9.5) |
| CACTI | Common name of Schlumbergera plant - blooming prickly at Yuletide! (9.5) |
| CACTUS | Schlumbergera plant, blooming prickly at this time of year! (9,6) |
| TOERAG | Tramp got up! About time! (6) |
| FORRESTGUMP | 1994 movie with the line "Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them" (2 wds.) |
| ALTERNATION | Change country: just one thing, then another ... |
| THORN | The trumpet leader's instrument could be a prickly thing to play with (5) |
| ASH | If seen at the far side of the mountain, it ' s a rowan (3) |
| SPINE | It's a prickly thing, backbone (5) |
| YUCCA | Youth leader has a turn with 200. A prickly thing to handle (5) |
| BLACKTHORN | A prickly thing to go without God among Britain's extremists |
| THISTLE | A prickly thing, a national emblem may be (7) |
| TARTARE | It ' s a sauce getting two seamen to go to the East (7) |
| ARCHITECTURE | Thrice curate perhaps - it ' s a way to earn a living (12) |
| SWALLOW | The Walkers' boat in Arthur Ransome's novels a and the rival to Amazon (7) |
| PARTICLE | SOFT THING IT S A SMALL PIECE |
| ROUNDABOUT | IT S A FAIR FEATURE IN AN INDIRECT WAY |
