| TOMATO | Rain dance from animated cartoon is a gardener's delight? (6) |
| TOES | Little piggies with Tom a gardener's delight (4) |
| APHIS | Herbert is a gardener's bane (5) |
| MONOCRAT | Dictator, ultimately from animated cartoon |
| INAROW | Following rain dance with a cry of pain (2,1,3) |
| ORDAIN | Appoint priest to do rain dance (6) |
| BARROW | Word, from "stretcher, bier" and "to bear", for a street vendor's mobile stall or a gardener's small handcart (6) |
| TRIBAL | Like a rain dance |
| BLANCH | From "white" or "to whiten", to scald almonds to remove skins; to immerse vegetables in boiling water; to turn pale with fear; or, a gardener's method for keeping celery pale (6) |
| RELATE | Give an account of river with delight? (6) |
| TOMTOM | Rain dance accompaniment |
| RITUAL | Rain dance, e. g. |
| TROWEL | Tool for spreading something thickly, metaphorically or literally; or, a gardener's veritable "ladle, scoop, stirring spoon" (6) |
| DOUSES | Delights? |
| DAPHNEBLAKE | Fictional character from animated series Scooby-Doo who is is a redhead who wears lavender heels: 2 wds. |
| VEGETABLE | Word that derives from "animated, enliven, excite", yet is used to describe an inanimate object in the form of a cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, courgette, cucumber or other edible part of a plant (9) |
| CONSORTIA | Cartoon is about a group of companies (9) |
| FREDJONES | Fictional character from animated series Scooby-Doo who is a human who wears an ascot tie: 2 wds. |
| WHATSUPDOC | Quote from animated character who's put a CD out |
| STRIP | Format of cartoon is to take off |
