| ASARABACCA | Plant, Asarum europaeum, with a solitary purplish-green drooping flower (10) |
| SAMURA | Genus of upright wild ginger, an anagram of its relative, Asarum! (6) |
| BASIL | Aromatic herb with purplish-green leaves (5) |
| KALE | Purplish green, sometimes |
| INDIANPIPE | White or pinkish woodland plant, Monotropa uniflora, having a solitary nodding flower (6,4) |
| WOODANEMONE | Low-growing plant with a solitary white flower that blooms between March and May (4,7) |
| ONEHORSE | Like a small town with a solitary nag (3-5) |
| ANEMONE | Bizarre name associated with a solitary flower |
| ISLAND | Be it Prospero's magical realm or the unpeopled strand landed on by Robinson Crusoe when he lost control of the helm, it is a water-surrounded eyot, inch or key in the blue, sometimes with a solitary |
| ABALONE | Sailor with a solitary decorative shell (7) |
| GRETAGARBO | A solitary wasp was named after this actress |
| ONEMANSHOW | Performance by a solitary actor (3-3,4) |
| CRICKET | Sport which featured at the Olympics only once, with a solitary game in 1900 between Great Britain and France (the former won the gold) |
| SMART | Whose paintings include Cahill Expressway (1962), depicting an expressway turn off with a solitary figure standing in an otherwise stark industrial landscape? (5) |
| WISTERIA | Climbing plant with purple drooping flower clusters (8) |
| FUCHSIA | Explorer and I take a drooping flower (7) |
| DITTANY | Aromatic Cretan plant with pink drooping flowers (7) |
| HAREBELL | Perennial slender-stemmed plant with pale blue drooping flowers; Campanula rotundifolia (8) |
| COWSLIP | Wild flower of the primrose family with bunches of pale yellow drooping flowers (7) |
| SNOWDROP | Drooping flower (8) |