| FIREBALL | Shaggy-domed bergamot with scarlet blooms - all fibre, possibly (8) |
| BRIEF | Short fibre, possibly |
| CARDINALFLOWER | Tall N American lobelia with scarlet blooms (8,6) |
| LOBELIA | - - - - - - - cardinalis, striking, erect perennial with scarlet blooms (7) |
| ULEX | Genus of spiny evergreen shrubs with bright yellow, pealike blooms all year round (4) |
| FLORAL | Of blooms; all for (anag.) (6) |
| COLOMBIA | The CIA bloom all over the South American state |
| SNODGER | "It was a ... day! The apple trees Was white with bloom. All things seemed good to me (Except that t |
| LILAC | Rupert Brooke was impressed by what flower "in bloom, All before my little room..." (5) |
| GERANIUM | Plant with scarlet, pink or white showy flowers (8) |
| OCOTILLO | Desert shrub of N Mexico and S W United States with scarlet flowers (8) |
| WITHERED | White, mixed with scarlet, faded (8) |
| FLAMINGO | Aquatic bird with scarlet plumage (8) |
| FIREDOOR | Exit half-cut Finn with scarlet jumper upside down (4,4) |
| REIMAGED | One sorcerer with scarlet cloak portrayed again |
| REDCEDAR | Forest tree with scarlet seed, I hear, a first rate Toona ciliata (3,5) |
| EARLGREY | Black tea that shares its name with a 19th-century British prime minister and is flavoured with bergamot oil (4,4) |
| SYNDROME | see 19dn, Variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot (4,4) |
| MAKESTHE | see 19dn, Variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot (4,4) |
| CRESCENT | see 19dn, Variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot (4,4) |
