| AUBERON | Mr. Waugh, author of The Foxglove Saga (7) |
| ALEC | Mr. Waugh, author of The Loom of Youth (4) |
| EVELYN | Mr. Waugh, author of Vile Bodies (6) |
| WAUGH | Author of the novels The Foxglove Saga and Path Of Dalliance (5) |
| DIGITALIS | Drug prepared from the dried leaves of the foxglove |
| VERONICA | Plant of the foxglove family in a cover, oddly (8) |
| CAPSULE | Foil cap on a wine bottle's cork; seedcase of a foxglove, poppy or violet; or, with "time", a cache of items representative of contemporary life, buried for future discovery (7) |
| SPOTTED | As the throats of foxglove flowers may be... espied? (7) |
| DIGITAL | Bits evenly removed from foxglove with a finger (7) |
| RACEME | From the Latin for "bunch of grapes", an inflorescence or panicle characteristic of a plant such as the foxglove, lupin or snapdragon (6) |
| DIGOXIN | Compound present in foxgloves, used as a cardiac stimulant (7) |
| GARDENS | Disturbing dangers where toxic plants like laburnum and foxgloves grow (7) |
| PLANTAIN | Plant in the order Lamiales, such as the foxglove or snapdragon (8) |
| DEADMENSBELLS | Another name for the foxglove (4,4,5) |
| DIGITALIN | Powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from the foxglove (9) |
| SPIRE | Steeple; blade of grass; apex of a shell such as that of the periwinkle; or, a towering stem of a flower such as a delphinium or foxglove (5) |
| PETALS | Modified leaves or corolla segments forming the "bells" of campanulas, foxgloves, heather or wild hyacinths, the "falls" of irises or the "trumpets" of bindweed etc (6) |
| PENSTEMON | "Valued for their racemes of foxglove-like flowers, ____s are elegant and reliable border perennials" (RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers) |
| WILD | Word for something untamed, wandering or in its native state - from bluebell, corncockle, cowslip and foxglove of Britain's verdant estate to the saker falcon, flying free in Kuwait (4) |
| CAPSULES | Small containers; dry bursting seed pods of foxgloves, poppies or violets; the foil covers of wine corks; or, caches buried for future discovery (8) |
