| GALANTHUS | The snowdrop genus... makes ants laugh! (9) |
| VITALNESS | What makes ants" lives animated? (9) |
| RICINUS | This exotic but toxic genus makes a showy tropical display (7) |
| MALUS | The small, colourful fruits of this genus make attractive seasonal decorations (5) |
| AVALANCHE | Snowdrop found in the mountains (9) |
| PERENNIAL | Plant living year after year such as the Christmas rose, amaryllis, winter jasmine, cyclamen or snowdrop (9) |
| AMARYLLID | Plant of daffodil/snowdrop family; lily drama (anag.) |
| HALESIA | Sheila modified a genus of the 'Snowdrop' tree, aka Silverbell (7) |
| ALONGSIDE | Next to a pine, first snowdrops die off (9) |
| NIVALIS | Latin botanical term for 'of the snow' as in Galanthus - - - , the snowdrop (7) |
| MOLY | Magical Homeric herb used by Odysseus as a countercharm against Circe's spells, identified in the real world as the snowdrop or a species of allium, commonly called golden onion, lily-leek or sorcerer |
| EARLYSIGN | Snowdrops, for spring |
| BULBS | Grown under trees or forced in pots, subterranean buds of bluebells, crocuses, daffodils, grape hyacinths, lilies and tulips, or the snowdrops collected by galanthophiles (5) |
| GARLIC | Widely cultivated plant of the genus snowdrop (6) |
| JANUARY | With a "wolf" full moon and symbols including garnet, carnation and snowdrop, month named after a god of doorways whose two faces look to the past and the future (7) |
| KILDARE | Snowdrop with green markings at the tip named after an Irish county (7) |
| WHITE | Colour of the flowers of lily of the valley, Solomon's seal, snowdrops, ramsons and wood sorrel (5) |
| ACONITE | Winter -; buttercup-yellow woodland flower, often one of the first to bloom in the New Year with snowdrops (7) |
| PLAYONWORDS | Amateur cutting wild snowdrop for a joke |
| MAGNET | A snowdrop with unusually long pedicels - attractive thing! (6) |
