| DEVILS | Succisa pratensis, or - bit scabious, has purple blooms like pincushions in autumn (6) |
| DIVIDE | It's a good time to ___ spring-flowering blooms like lungwort (6) |
| OREO | Cookie whose limited-edition Easter Egg variety has purple creme |
| SEWINGSHOP | Place with patterns and pincushions |
| BIT | Succisa pratensis is better known as devil's ___ scabious (3) |
| SUCCISA | ___ pratensis, devil's-bit scabious - sort of capsicums MP removed! (7) |
| ROSETTE | A bloom-like carving, cut diamond, knot of ribbons, leopard spot, pattern, wheel window, whorl of leaves or other thing reminiscent of England's national flower (7) |
| MOLLY | Bloom like a gangster's girl? |
| DAISY | Bloom like 6-down? (5) |
| DEVILSBIT | Species of scabious with lilac-blue or violet pincushion-like flowers and roots imagined to have been begnawed by "Old Scratch", hence its name in question and Latin epithet Succisa pratensis, "cut fr |
| AZALEA | Type of rhododendron with pink or purple blooms (6) |
| NICKEL | Take English pounds or bit in U.S. currency (6) |
| MINING | Industry or process of extracting coal from a pit/seam; or, the burrowing work of a bee such as the "scabious" species - a naturalist's dream (6) |
| EDISON | Dahlia 'Thomas A. ___' has deep purple blooms (6) |
| BISTRO | Or bits of it are found in a small bar (6) |
| POPPLE | 'Mrs - - - - - -', vigorous fuchsia with red-purple blooms (6) |
| ECHIUM | From the Greek for "viper", for its use in folk medicine as an antidote to snakebites, the genus of the wild purple bloom called viper's bugloss (6) |
| NIPPED | Pinched or bit (6) |
| PIECES | Coins such as the Spanish eight-real examples made famous in Treasure Island or, bits and bobs (6) |
| THORAX | Try to catch start of hockey or bit of cricket? |
