| SPIKED | Rose a lot |
| AEROSOLS | Sprays roses a lot, somehow, though short of time |
| NOISETTE | Hybrid of the China rose and the musk rose; a chocolate made with hazelnuts; a medallion of lamb; or, an espresso with a dash of milk (8) |
| EGLANTINE | Another name for the sweetbriar rose, a Eurasian wild rose with a fragrant essential oil used in per |
| BOURBON | A scented hybrid rose; a chocolate sandwich biscuit; or, a royal dynasty whose kings included Henry of Navarre and Louis XIV (7) |
| BLUSH | Variety of rose; a pinkish-cream colour, a group of boys; or, a cloudy area on the surface of drying gloss paint (5) |
| CHAFER | Rose ---, a beetle having a greenish body with a metallic lustre (6) |
| HUSTLE | Pete Rose, a k a "Charlie ___" |
| HELLEBORE | Known as a Lenten or winter rose, a flower in shades of mauve, pink, soft lime green, cassis or white, arranged in vintage-style wedding bouquets (9) |
| NOD | "And giving a ___, up the chimney he rose" ("A Visit From St. Nicholas" excerpt) |
| BED | A berth, bunk, palliasse, shakedown etc, such as Shakespeare's "second- best" example which he bequeathed to his wife; or, something thusly flat, such as a garden plot of roses, a layer of oysters or |
| REBELLED | Rose, a lovely girl in red (8) |
| SHRUB | Perhaps rose a short time in submarine |
| CHRISTMAS | - rose, a snow and frost resilient species of hellebore with radiant white blooms in the colder months, often planted to brighten the winter garden (9) |
| UMBERTOECO | What Italian literary critic and semiotician wrote The Name of the Rose, a best-selling murder mystery? |
| SESAMES | Plants roses a messenger's delivered |
| ABED | _ ___ of roses: a pleasant and luxurious existence? (1,3) |
| BAROLO | Booze; aroma: roses - or latterly, oak, primarily? (6) |
| BRIAR | Pipe or rose (a not e) (5) |
| STEIN | "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" writer |
