"Flowers" Answers

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Answer Explanation to “Flowers”

1A Messy robe in bag,another one outside

‘messy’ is anagram indicator and applies to ‘robe’

‘in’ is insertion indicator and so ‘bag’ goes into a rearranged ‘robe’

 B  BAG ERO

‘outside’ would refer to another word for ‘bag’ and that goes outside the above

Another word for bag is case

 CA  B  BAG  ERO  SE

Answer : Cabbage Rose

5A Say, tough guy is first to get locked up by court

‘say’ is homonym indicator and refers to ‘tough’ giving us TUF

Guy is either a synonym for a male or an actual name : in this case ANDY

‘Is first’  means that ANDY is placed before TUF

The above is then ‘locked up’ by court which in short is CT

Answer : Candy Tuft

7A Gangster – not international and not national

Gangster =  Al Capone

International = cap  national = n

‘not’ means to take them out of CAPONE

Answer : Aloe

9A A huge sum you sacrificed with another member

You ‘sacrificed’ means that U is taken out of the answer

Another member implies that what remains after U is taken out is a member

Member = arm

Arm and a leg ( another member ) means something costly and so is a huge sum

Answer : Arum

11A Chicken, livered as such

Whatever the answer is , when its combined with ‘livered’ you will get a word meaning ‘chicken’

Lily-livered means cowardly

Answer : Lily

12A All-round first-class side

First class = AI

Side = XI

So we have AIXI

‘all-round’ is a reversal indicator

Answer : Ixia

13A Lucky people finally get last wish

Last wish = H

‘finally get’ means put H at the end of the answer and get “lucky people”

Irish are considered ‘lucky’

Answer : Iris

14A  Covered by huge umbrella

‘covered by’ is hidden indicator meaning that the answer is inside “huge umbrella”

Answer : Geum

1D Ask for song in church, nothing more

Ask for = CALL

Song = ARIA

We have CALL ARIA

And in it we have church = CE as well as ( more ) nothing = O

CAL  CE O LARIA

Answer : Calceolaria

2D  Dishonest about opponents

In bridge opponents are either NE or SW

Dishonest = BENT

BENT about NE = BENNET

Answer : Bennet

3D Agent in trouble

‘trouble’ is anagram indicator

‘Agent is’ turns to Gentian

Answer : Gentian

4D Get back it’s grasp of universal quality

It refers to answer which needs to ‘grasp’ Universal Quality which is UQ

‘back’ means to reverse ‘it’ and then the whole thing would mean ‘get’

Another word for get is acquire ( reverse it to get ERIUQCA )

Remove UQ and get Erica

Answer : Erica

6D Hear stories that sounds far-fetched!

Stories = LORE

‘hear’ is homonym indicator and so LORE becomes LOR

‘sounds’ is another homonym indicator and applies to ‘far’

 FAR becomes FA

FA fetched LOR means that FA carried LOR

Answer : Flora

8D Fellow to bring up the rear

Fellow = F

Bring up the rear = LAG

Answer : Flag

10D  Thousands embrace America

Thousands = M, K

America = US

M, K embrace US gives us M US K

Answer : Musk

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