| ARUM | Plant not actually in the lily genus |
| FIRSTDONOHARM | *Medical ethics phrase not actually in the Hippocratic Oath |
| ICLOUD | Apple storage service that's not actually in the sky |
| THEFRONTPAGE | Gets held back by media of late provided it's not actually in the newspaper (3,5,4) |
| ARENA | "It is not the critic who counts. . . . The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the ___": Theodore Roosevelt |
| ODDMANOUT | Curious player dismissed - one not actually in match |
| SOBADITSGOOD | Terrible, but not actually in a negative way |
| GLASGOW | I thought I had touched down in Sin City (2-4), but I was actually in the Scottish city_ |
| UTOPIA | More work leading one to break actually in the middle |
| SAX | Brass instrument that's actually in the woodwind family for short |
| STAR | ___ of Bethlehem; bulb plant in the lily family, genus Ornithogalum (4) |
| TULIPS | Spring flowers in the lily family grown in vast numbers at Keukenhof in Holland (6) |
| ASPARAGUS | Edible plant, formerly in the lily family, also known by the dialect name sparrow grass (9) |
| ALOE | Plant in the lily family |
| ASPHODEL | This plant, previously in the lily family (8) |
| HYACINTH | Spring flowering plant in the lily family often 'forced' to bloom indoors (8) |
| COWARDS | Company draws in the lily-livered (7) |
| HOSTA | Who's tastefully holding the plantain lily genus? (5) |
| EUCOMIS | The 'pineapple lily' genus - transforms some ICU (7) |
| TULIP | Derived from a Persian word meaning "turban", a spring flower in the lily family with types including single early, fringed, triumph, Darwin and parrot (5) |
