| LILAC | Rupert Brooke was impressed by what flower "in bloom, All before my little room..." (5) |
| GROWOUTOF | Cease to be interested by what flower does to seed? |
| CARBONCOPY | One was impressed by an old typewriter (6,4) |
| LORDPRIVYSEAL | Make sure of keeping up my little room outside government office |
| PETAL | Leapt around to get a part of a flower in bloom (5) |
| VIOLETS | In exile on Elba, Napoleon told his friends that he would return to France with the appearance of what flowers in the spring? (7) |
| SNODGER | "It was a ... day! The apple trees Was white with bloom. All things seemed good to me (Except that t |
| IRIS | What flowers in ruins, oddly enough? |
| COLOMBIA | The CIA bloom all over the South American state |
| OPEN | Of a flower, in bloom (4) |
| MILITARY | Mary and I lit it and the army was impressed (8) |
| BRITANNIA | Copper was impressed with the Royal Yacht (9) |
| ULEX | Genus of spiny evergreen shrubs with bright yellow, pealike blooms all year round (4) |
| FIREBALL | Shaggy-domed bergamot with scarlet blooms - all fibre, possibly (8) |
| TULIP | What flower features in the title of an Alexandre Dumas novel? (5) |
| DAISY | Opening and closing daily, what flower was originally called "day's eye"? (5) |
| BLOOM | What flowers do in season (5) |
| RUGBY | Considered the birthplace of a sport involving scrummage, a public school with houses including Cotton, Kilbracken, Griffin and Rupert Brooke (5) |
| SHEER | Thin, heroin-taking type that's seen it all before? (5) |
| BLASE | Having a "seen it all before" attitude (5) |
