| BOUQUET | Word describing a group of pheasants when flushed; the characteristic aroma of perfume; or, a floral arrangement, bigger than a posy (7) |
| TESTER | Canopy over a four-poster bed; sixpence; a sample of perfume; or, a miniature pot of paint (6) |
| WEDGE | Type of golf club for maximum loft in a bunker or trap; style of shoe with a block heel; or, a word describing a group of geese or swans in flight (5) |
| SCAPE | The cry of a snipe when flushed; the snipe itself; an old word for a getaway, slip or transgression; a suffix indicating a scene, as in land, moon or sea; or, the leafless flower stem of the amaryllis |
| TESTERS | Samples of perfume or paint to try before buying a full amount; or, the upper canopies of four-poste |
| NOSE | The characteristic aroma or fragrance of a wine (4) |
| NIDE | Group of pheasants on the ground as opposed to a bouquet when flushed or a brace as a pair (4) |
| PAIR | A brace of pheasants, couple of lovers, distich of lines, duo of rowers, duet of singers, dyad of gloves, flight of stairs, yoke of oxen or other two of a kind or twinset of equal things (4) |
| ROCKET | The herb arugula; a firework; the rising of a game bird when flushed; or, with "sweet", dame's-violet or mother-of-the-evening with nightscented honesty-like blooms (6) |
| HEADS | Obverse of a coin; or, one of the words for groups of pheasants (5) |
| ESSENCE | From "be", a word for existence or being originally, later an intrinsic nature, inherent character or indispensable quality; a plant extract for flavouring or scent; or, the concentrate, perfume or su |
| SCENT | A hunting term for a dog's faculty of smell that came to mean perfume or any pleasant aroma; or, a trail (5) |
| PERFECT | Word describing a paragon diamond or, formerly, a score of 10.0 for a routine in artistic gymnastics (7) |
| HEAD | Word for a capitulum of flowers; an effigy on a coin; one's "upper storey"-encasing caput; a cabbage or lettuce, dense and round like said anterior bonce; a schoolmaster/mistress; a nide of pheasants; |
| RAREEARTH | Term describing a group of elements which includes scandium, yttrium and erbium (4-5) |
| ENNUI | French word describing a feeling of boredom or listlessness, depicted in a painting by Walter Sickert (5) |
| GLOOMY | Word describing a dull cloudy sky, a pessimistic dean or a sombre mood (6) |
| CITRUS | Genus, echoing the roots/aroma of "cedar, conifer", of a sweet or sour bunch of fruits including bergamot, clementine, lemon, lime and orange (6) |
| SORD | Name given in medieval times to a flock of mallards, derived from the way they respond when flushed (4) |
| TWEEN | Word describing a child aged 10-12, too old to be a child but too young to be a teenager (5) |
