| ADZUKI | Plant unknown in modern times - British one |
| HYSSOP | Minty plant unknown in shops, oddly (6) |
| ZINNIA | Tropical plant unknown in North Island area |
| BIXA | Classification of dye plants unknown in fabric's diagonal cut |
| AZALEAS | Plants unknown in drained area beside meadows (7) |
| FACTORY | Plant unknown agent in front (7) |
| LORDDERBY | He was three times British PM in the 19th century, always with a minority government (4,5) |
| MCCOY | Many times British NH champion jockey (5) |
| BIRKDALE | Merseyside golf course, 10 times British Open host, Royal ... (8) |
| GLADSTONE | William Ewart , 1809-1898, four times British Prime Minister (9) |
| CENTAURY | Plant unknown to creature such as Chiron |
| DAISY | Plant unknown on stage (5) |
| AZALEA | Plant unknown beer amid company of travellers |
| THORP | In olden times, small village... and in modern times, small village in Dungeons & Dragons |
| ADVANCEMENT | In modern times, those in front make fast progress |
| ICI | One-time British company involved in pharmaceutic industry (3) |
| KNOSSOS | Chief city of Minoan (Bronze Age) Crete, first excavated in modern times by British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans from 1900 (7) |
| CHEESE | An important person whose title comes from Persian for "thing"; or, a turophile's nibble of choice in the shape of a disc, truckle, wedge, wheel or, in modern times, a string (6) |
| CHARLIECHAPLIN | Self-directed in 'Modern Times' |
| AGED | Advanced alternative, say, in modern times (4) |
