| PERENNIAL | Reoccurring plant such as aquilegia, lavender and lupin; or, an informal name for the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society (9) |
| STENO | Word used to denote something narrow, such as a leaf; or, an informal name for a shorthand typist (5) |
| SPUR | Part of the sepal of a flower such as aquilegia, honeysuckle, delphinium or orchid for a pollinator's proboscis (4) |
| RACEME | From the Latin for "bunch of grapes", an inflorescence or panicle characteristic of a plant such as the foxglove, lupin or snapdragon (6) |
| EDEN | Some revolutionary aubergine developed for the gardeners initially (4) |
| DOGROSE | Flower begging for the gardener's attention? (3,4) |
| RUM | Alcoholic spirit distilled from sugar-cane residues or molasses, as in the heucherella 'Buttered ___' and lupin 'Red ___'! (3) |
| POLAR | Extreme north and south, as in the cultivars Agapanthus '___ Ice' and lupin '___ Princess' (5) |
| MUM | Nickname of the "chrysanth", whose full name stems from Greek for "gold flower"; an informal name for one's mater; noun meaning "silence"; or, an interjection calling for such (3) |
| PUG | An old word for a fox; an informal name for a boxer; an animal's footprint; or, a little carlin with a curled tail and a wrinkled face, whose snorts and snuffles inspired its collective name "grumble" |
| FOOTER | A walker; a Scots word for a fiddle or potter about; an informal name for soccer; a kick of the ball in said game; or, type/text at the bottom of a page, in contrast to the header, at the top (6) |
| LEMON | What is an informal name for an unreliable or defective car? (5) |
| DIXIE | What is an informal name for the Southern states of the US? (5) |
| COPS | Word for arrests or captures, hence an informal name for police officers (4) |
| BELL | Virginia Woolf's elder sister whose home at Charleston was a retreat for the Bloomsbury set; an artist in the Abstract style whose paintings include Flowers in a Ginger Jar and Cotton, Lavender and Qu |
| RASP | From "sweet rose-coloured wine", an informal name for a pinkish berry-like canefruit synonymous with a boo, hiss or jeer and recalled in a vulgar rhyme about a "framboise tart" (4) |
| COLUMN | Architectural pillar crowned with a capital; or, a regular feature in a newspaper on a reoccurring theme such as books, food, sport or style (6) |
| PHASES | Reoccurring sunlit shapes of the Moon; stages of mitosis; or, the periods of play between breakdowns in rugby union (6) |
| PHASE | Each one of the moon's reoccurring sunlit aspects or shapes as viewed from Earth (5) |
| COLUMBINE | From the Latin for "dove", the flower, "granny's bonnet", with petals reminiscent of a flock of five doves, whose original Latin name, Aquilegia, alludes to its hook-like spurs, thought to resemble an |
