| ANTHESIS | Word, from the Greek for "to blossom" or "to bloom", for the stage when a flower burgeons from gloom (8) |
| ABANDONS | Is leaving the stage when a group is still playing (8) |
| WALES | Hawksworth WR 1003 County can't be relied upon to bloom for long? (5) |
| EPITOME | From the Greek for "to cut short", a summary or miniature form; or, a perfect example of something (7) |
| MIRTH | U-turn from gloom |
| DIASPORAS | Groups from the Greek for "to scatter" |
| ENDGAME | Stage when a king is most vulnerable |
| VIOLET | Love it when a flower shows colour! (6) |
| AROSE | This is when a flower came up |
| CRESCENT | Word, from "grow", for the curve of a waxing or waning Moon, appearing to gradually burgeon or billow; or, something equally lunate, from a sickle with which to mow and croissant of rich buttery dough |
| GRILSE | A salmon at the stage when it returns for the first time from the sea to fresh water (6) |
| FLOWERER | Horticultural term for a geranium, rose, sweet pea, violet or other plant which blossoms or burgeons in a specific manner; or, an Ayrshire tambourer, for example, embroidering sprigs and motifs reflec |
| GROWER | A cultivator/producer of flowers, fruits, vegetables or other crop; a song or album that becomes progressively more likeable; or, a plant that blooms or burgeons in a specified way (6) |
| SMOLT | What is a young salmon at the stage when it migrates from fresh water to the sea? (5) |
| FLOURISH | Word for "burgeon, prosper, thrive"; a mass of blossom; an embellishment in handwriting or scrollwork; an ostentatious display; a showy passage of words; a grandiose passage of music; or, a trumpeter' |
| ROSARY | Word, from the Latin for a garden of floribundas, damasks or other such blooms, for a string of prayer beads (6) |
| BLOOMER | Bakery or boulangerie's batard-like loaf of bread that burgeons forth like a bloom; or, a floriated initial letter (7) |
| MAY | Hawthorn or its blossom; or, a month that takes its name from a Roman goddess of fertility and spring, during which Beltane is observed on its first day (3) |
| HOTBED | A forcing-ground or garden plot whose speedy raising of plants by heat is proverbial for a place where problems incubate, troubles blossom or unrosy seeds of strife are sown (6) |
| PROSPER | Word meaning to boom, burgeon, flourish, grow rich, thrive or perhaps live long in the manner of a Vulcan's blessing, literally "according to one's hope" (7) |
