| HOLLYHOCK | Tall flower ranging in colour from pastel peach to cassis; a stalwart of herbaceous borders and cottage gardens with delphiniums, lupins and foxgloves (9) |
| HEATHER | Used by the Picts for ale and thriving in the Scottish Highlands, a flower ranging in colour from amethyst to shell pink, regarded lucky in its white form (7) |
| RCCOLAS | Cott Beverages beverages |
| CULL | Bruised peach, to an orchardist |
| HYDRANGEA | Blooming in Japan during its rainy season, colour-changing flower ranging from white and pink to blue and purple depending on the soil pH and cultivar (9) |
| MARKS | Revolutionary said to be stalwart of 10 24 (5) |
| REDBRICK | Socialist stalwart of certain universities? |
| SHATNER | Stalwart of space programme? Well, his Martian is fluent (7,7) |
| WILLIAM | Stalwart of space programme? Well, his Martian is fluent (7,7) |
| PEARL | Gem ranging in colour from the white Akoya, golden South Sea or black Tahitian varieties of an oyster to the pink, peach or lavender examples of a freshwater mussel (5) |
| NEPHRITE | Variety of jade consisting of calcium magnesium silicate, ranging in colour from white to dark green; from Greek, ' kidney' (8) |
| OCHRE | Ranging in colour from yellow and orange to red and brown, the earliest known pigment used by humans (5) |
| AMETHYST | Quartz ranging in colour from purple and violet to rose de France (8) |
| THULITE | Ranging in colour from rose to vibrant pink and strawberry, Norway's national gemstone, "rosaline" (7) |
| STROKE | Word ranging in meaning from a gentle touch of a paintbrush or tick of a clock to a sudden brain attack (6) |
| NIGELLA | Genus of love-in-a-mist, a self-seeding cottage garden flower often appearing in paving or herbaceous borders (7) |
| DOLLY | Word ranging in meaning from a child's moppet or poupee with which to play, to an offering of flowers, fruit and sweetmeats, presented on a tray (5) |
| HILL | Type of landform ranging in size from a mountain to a mole tump (4) |
| AMBER | Once part of a tree's immune system, a gem occurring in colours from yellow and orange to red and brown (5) |
| MAMMALS | Group of some 4,000 species of vertebrates ranging in size from the pygmy shrew to the blue whale (7) |
