| SAMBA | Penstemon 'Summer - - - - -', a cultivar sharing its name with a Brazilian dance (5) |
| RIO | Duran Duran song that shares its name with a Brazilian city |
| NYMPH | Gladiolus cultivar sharing its name with a mythical creature of forests, rivers and mountains (5) |
| CAPRI | Prostrate rosemary cultivar sharing its name with a Bay of Naples isle (5) |
| DRAKE | Ulmus parvifolia, Chinese elm cultivar sharing its name with a 16th century English explorer (5) |
| TANGO | Argentine ballroom dance sharing its name with a hybrid busy Lizzie (5) |
| COBRA | Hooded snake sharing its name with a carnivorous pitcher plant (5) |
| OSCAR | Hollywood film award sharing its name with a vivid scarlet gladiolus (5) |
| REDWING | Euphorbia cultivar sharing its name with a winter-visiting thrush (7) |
| HEATH | Sharing its name with an ericaceous moorland habitat, a buff-orange brush-footed butterfly whose satyrid "brown" relatives include the gatekeeper, grayling, marbled-white, ringlet and speckled wood (5 |
| ADELE | Speckled red-flowered alstroemeria sharing its name with the Rolling in the Deep singer (5) |
| WHITNEY | Gladiolus cultivar sharing its name with ' ------- Houston', late US songstress (7) |
| ADAM | Monarda cultivar sharing its name with the Bible's first man (4) |
| STORM | Deep purple-blooming penstemon cultivar - a tempest of a plant! (5) |
| RAVEN | A purple-flowering, white-throated penstemon - 'glossy black bird' (5) |
| BOSSA | Start of a Brazilian dance name |
| DONNA | ___ Summer, a.k.a. queen of disco |
| ERATO | One of nine in summer, a tourist |
| SHINER | A polishing device sharing its name with a colloquial term for a black eye |
| HELLSKITCHEN | TV series hosted by Gordon Ramsay sharing its name with a New York neighbourhood (5,7) |
