| TEPAL | Part of flower - and of date palm |
| PETALS | Parts of flower and others kept in empty pouches (6) |
| ELCHE | Which city in Valencia is the only European city to be surrounded by an extensive grove of date palms, enhancing a North African atmosphere? (5) |
| ROSEHIP | Fruit of flower, and part of watering can with it (7) |
| BAMBI | Friend of Flower and Faline |
| SEEDS | Packets of flower and vegetable ___ are on store shelves (5) |
| LETO | With sacred symbols including dates, palm trees and veils, a Titaness goddess of fertility, mother to Apollo and Artemis (4) |
| DATE | Fruit of the date palm, having sweet edible flesh (4) |
| PHOENIX | The capital city of Arizona, is also the date palm! (7) |
| OASIS | Date palm setting |
| ALMOND | Nut found in the date palm on desert island (6) |
| OASES | Date palm habitats |
| CARAVAGGIO | Artist born Michelangelo Merisi noted for still lifes of flowers and fruit, half-length figures such as The Boy Bitten by a Lizard and Bacchus and for decorating the Contarelli Chapel (10) |
| MOSER | Daughter of a Swiss goldsmith, the youngest founding member of the Royal Academy who painted Spring, Summer, Bouquet of Flowers and a room at Frogmore House (5) |
| SPRAYS | Small bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages or nosegays of flowers and foliage; ornamental brooches resembling thus; or, clouds of flying droplets of scent or water (6) |
| GARLAND | An old word for a crown; a nautical coil or grommet of rope; a festoon or wreath of flowers and foliage; or, an anthology or florilegium of poems (7) |
| ADDER | Reptile climbing dismembered date palms |
| FLORA | Goddess of flowers and the season of spring in Roman mythology, identified with the Greek Chloris (5) |
| WREATH | Circlet of flowers and foliage; a curl of smoke; a chaplet; or, a snowdrift (6) |
| BOUQUET | French for "clump of trees" which entered into English as "bunch of flowers" and later "aroma" (7) |
