| NAAFI | Verbena, a fine flower, as in the Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes! (1,1,1,1,1) |
| BRACT | Modified leaf with a flower, as in poinsettia (5) |
| SPINK | Folk name, echoing its perfect fine flower of a call, for a charming songbird that binds its nest with spider webs and is commonly called a chaffinch (5) |
| VILLAGE | _ People; US disco group with hits such as In the Navy and Go West (7) |
| BEDS | Places to grow flowers - as in the contracted home county! (4) |
| SCAPES | Stalks of solitary flowers as in the Narcissus |
| DAFF | Fancy pulling up fine flower (4) |
| GIRAFFE | Army and Air Force men get iron for this animal (7) |
| FRILLIES | Underwear that is covered with fine flowers (8) |
| ORCHIDS | Fine flowers unravelled his cord (7) |
| ARMED | - forces; a country's army, navy, and air force collectively (5) |
| NELLY | Rapper with the songs "Hot in Herre" and "Air Force Ones" |
| LEMON | Citrus fruit with a scent echoed in a variety of balm, basil, geranium, grass, pelargonium, thyme and verbena (5) |
| WHITE | Founder of the English Folk Cookery Association who wrote Easy Dressmaking, Good Things in England and Flowers as Food (5) |
| LAPEL | A series of fine-leaved verbenas - place for a button hole? (5) |
| SIGMA | Timeless part of flower as symbol of summer? (5) |
| STEMS | They support flowers as one stops the flow (5) |
| FLORA | A region's flowers, as opposed to fauna |
| ANDREWS | Air Force base in Maryland which is the home base of the Boeing aircraft Air Force One and Air Force Two (7) |
| TEAKS | Trees of the verbena family |
