| METEORSHOWER | Trimmer gets cut rose, the nightly spectacle... (6,6) |
| MASON | Author of the Inspector Hanaud novels including At the Villa Rose, The Prisoner in the Opal, They Wouldn't Be Chessmen and The House in Lordship Lane (5) |
| IRIS | First name of the author of The Sandcastle, An Unofficial Rose, The Unicorn and The Sea, the Sea (4) |
| SHOW | "The Nightly ___ With Larry Wilmore" (Comedy Central program) |
| WEATHERREPORT | Part of the nightly news (two words) |
| ANCHORS | People who deliver the nightly news |
| ATTEN | When the nightly news might air |
| FLOWER | Fine cut rose perhaps (6) |
| ASCENDED | Bill and Edward go round to smell cut rose (8) |
| FROST | Cut rose protected by pink paper in cold snap (5) |
| STEM | Thorny part of a cut rose |
| SEESAWED | Judge cut rose, then fell (8) |
| SADDER | 'A ___ and a wiser man,/He rose the morrow morn' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) |
| IMP | Troublemaker promises to cut roses (3) |
| DROOP | Begin to wither, like cut roses (5) |
| VASE | Vessel for cut roses |
| NUN | A Christian religious woman who lives by certain vows, as in the shrub rose 'The ___', and Camellia japonica 'White ___' (3) |
| BOTANY | Studied by Carl Linnaeus or The Wild Flower Key author Francis Rose, the science of plants (6) |
| TOLOSA | Ancient name of "La Ville Rose", the French "Pink City", whose culinary specialities include "saucisses" and the cassoulet in which they are served (6) |
| MARKRUDOLF | American director whose films including The Rose. The River and On Golden Pond (4,6) |
