| AGARIC | Plant a bulb with no end of soil (6) |
| NAKED | Like a bulb with no lampshade, say |
| SCREW | Install, as a bulb, with "in" |
| GARLIC | Edible bulb with a pungent flavour (6) |
| NERINE | - - - - - - bowdenii, S African autumn bulb with pink, lily-like blooms (6) |
| SCILLA | Spring bulb with blue, bell-shaped flowers - damaged lilacs (6) |
| ALLIUM | Pungent family of bulbs, with fifty-one preserved in alum (6) |
| LILIUM | Popular genus of bulbs with flowers shaped like trumpets, funnels or Turk's caps (6) |
| FENNEL | Bulb with an aniselike flavor |
| ONIONS | Edible bulbs with several layers (6) |
| TULIPS | Popular spring bulbs with large, showy flowers (6) |
| SOCKET | Word, with an odd set of linguistic ancestors including a pig's snout, a ploughshare and a spearhead, for an electrical fitting for a bulb or a plug (6) |
| CLOVES | Segments of a bulb of garlic; or, dried flower buds used as spice for curries or mulled wine (6) |
| BEDAUB | Area for planting a bulb regularly lacking soil |
| DIMMED | Went out, as a bulb |
| HYACINTH | A spring bulb with spears of pink, blue or white flowers (8) |
| LILIES | Flowers from a bulb |
| ONIONY | Like a bulb |
| COAT | A fleece, pelage or pelt; or, any other outer covering, such as an application of paint/varnish, blanket of dust, husk of a seed, jacket, layer of a bulb or top of a suit of armour (4) |
| SPRINGONION | Bulb with leaves eaten in salads (6,5) |
