| SIX | The cultivars '___ Hills Giant' and '___ Hills Gold'! (3) |
| DAKOTAMINING | Feature of the Black Hills gold rush? |
| UTO | Imaginary society possessing highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities, as in the cultivars of Phlox x arendsii, and the floribunda rose (3) |
| PIA | Imaginary society possessing highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities, as in the cultivars of Phlox x arendsii, and the floribunda rose (3) |
| ENNIS | Dame Jessica -- -Hill, gold medallist (5) |
| POLAR | Extreme north and south, as in the cultivars Agapanthus '___ Ice' and lupin '___ Princess' (5) |
| LILLIPUT | Island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, where the inhabitants are 6in tall, as in the cultivars of agapanthus and Tulipa humilis (8) |
| ICY | Fuchsia cultivars '___ Pink' and '___ Tears': very cold to the touch! (3) |
| EAT | Consume, as in the hemerocallis cultivar '___ Our Wake Pintaheads'! (3) |
| TOW | Pull along, as with the lupin cultivar '___ ering Inferno'! (3) |
| NAY | With a sound like a horse, this is a 'no' - as in the Leyland cypress cultivar '___lor's Blue'! (3) |
| VAT | Consumer tax found in the rosemary cultivar '___ican Blue' (1,1,1) |
| EGO | Self-esteem or self-image, as in the cultivar of Siberian iris (3) |
| OTT | Baseball giant and hall-of-famer Mel ___ |
| NFC | Div. that the Packers, Giants and Redskins are in |
| NFL | Org. of Giants and Titans |
| OSCAR | Forename of a dramatist, novelist, poet and wit who also wrote short stories including The Fisherman and His Soul, The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and The Star-Child (5) |
| REGENCY | Period at the end of the Georgian era, when King George III was deemed unfit to rule, as in the daylily cultivars '___ Heights' and '___ Dandy' (7) |
| MAO | Phormium cultivars '___ri Sunrise' and '___ri Queen', not the former Chinese communist leader! (3) |
| RAGNAROK | In Scandinavian mythology, the end of the world of gods and men will be preceded by cruel winters and moral chaos. Giants and demons approaching from all points of the compass will attack the gods, wh |
