Possible Clues:

• The flower of detective fiction
• Victor ignores second flower
• Record-breaker gives up husband for poet
• Be intent, perhaps, with one on the flower
• Edmund ---, martyr; Thomas ---, poet/lute composer
• Small flower; Thomas -, Elizabethan poet
• Here's one blooming winner doing without drug!
• Plant person winning the cup, not second!
• See 28
• Wild flower (red, white or bladder)