Flowers

Flower answers range from three-letter staples to long garden names. Clues usually describe a colour, a season or a place, and the season is often the quickest way to narrow the field.

Most of them have 8 / 7 letters. The first letters that occur most often are C, S, D. Each answer links to its own page with more clues.

This list has 73 answers, from 4 to 10 letters; 47% of them have five to seven. In crosswords the category is usually signalled by a short opener such as “showy”, “fragrant”, “tropical”, so the clue narrows the family before the crossings do. The members that catch solvers out are the rarer ones: SATINPOD (Silvery garden flower), GLOXINIA (Greenhouse flower) and STATICE (Salt-marsh flower).

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