| TECOPHILAEA | The Chilean blue crocus genus (11) |
| ABUSENOT | Blue crocus |
| PABLONERUDA | Pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto |
| ESMERALDA | Sailiing ship in the Chilean navy, this training vessel is alleged to have been used for detention and torture in the post-Allende period |
| ACONCAGUA | Highest peak of the Andes, in west-central Argentina near the Chilean border (9) |
| ANDEAN | From the Chilean mountains |
| MONKEYPUZZLETREE | The Chilean evergreen Araucaria araucana (6,6,4) |
| CAY | Stratovolcano in the Chilean Andes, west of Yulton Lake (3) |
| COQUITO | Honey-yielding tree also called the Chilean wine palm |
| MAGELLAN | Lagan elm found in the Chilean strait, oddly |
| LASCAR | Volcano in the Chilean Andes |
| PATAGONIA | Torres del Paine is a popular tourist destination in the Chilean part of this tableland region of so |
| CALCULATORS | Atall crocus (anag.) (11) |
| COUNCILLORS | Local politicians becoming ill on crocus diet (11) |
| CRASHCOURSE | Intense study programme dissected hare's crocus |
| IVORNOVELLO | Welsh actor, songwriter and dramatist whose films included Autumn Crocus (4,7) |
| AUTUMN | - crocus; also known as meadow saffron and naked lady, a corm plant with lilac-blue flowers from September to November, genus Colchicum (6) |
| BULBS | Underground parts of plants such as the crocus, dahlia, winter aconite, chionodoxa (glory-of-the-snow) snowdrop and narcissus (5) |
| SPATHE | In botany, a sheathing bract enclosing the flower or spadix of plants including the arum, day flower, palm, peace lily and crocus (6) |
| STIGMA | From "brand, point, tattoo", word for a mark of disgrace; or, the part of the autumn crocus used as saffron (6) |
