| COWSLIPS | One of the kine misses its footing in the flowers (8) |
| SKIDS | Loses one's footing in the field? (5) |
| EVEN | Was on an equal footing in the Seventies (4) |
| SLIP | Lose your footing in the lingerie department (4) |
| JETE | Jump as French lover's assertion misses its aim? |
| INEXACT | Next CIA blunder misses its target (7) |
| SOCK | Lonely laundry room find (it misses its partner 💔) |
| STANDING | Word for continuance/duration; a halt or place to be on one's feet; one's footing in life; or, a ranking in sport (8) |
| FLUKIEST | Most charmed disciple lost footing in party, chopped! (8) |
| GARDENIA | A danger I turned over in the flower-bed? |
| FROGS | Salientians with wide mouths fancifully imagined in the flowers of snapdragons; or, the "springy" shock-absorbing "Vs" or frushes on the soles of horses' hooves (5) |
| CHESSBOARD | Black-and-white "battlefield" upon which a wooden army is spread, reflected in miniature in the flowers of the fritillary aka "snake's-head" (10) |
| BLISTERED | Let sir collapse in the flowers, having the after-effects of sunburn? (9) |
| BURNEJONES | Artist who is seen as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites; his works include Love and the Pilgrim and collection of watercolours in The Flower Book (5-5) |
| SPLENDOUR | Though nothing can bring back the hour, Of ___ in the grass, of glory in the flower: William Wordsworth (9) |
| STAGGER | 'Egg-whisk', in the lead, does lose its footing |
| SLIPPERLIMPET | Mollusc, one losing its footing with one that sticks to rocks (7,6) |
| BRILL | Sounds fantastic shortly in the flowers (5) |
| SENSOR | Detective equipment in the flowers holding name back (6) |
| IBEX | Square houses exist: one'll keep its footing on a rocky slope |
