Possible Clues:

• Like some company picnics
• Like many physicals
• Plant book promoted before Christmas?
• Like pansies and petunias
• One of the flowery types in The Beano
• Recall cover for a 2 book?
• Make nothing of penning article in regular publication
• Step out of unpleasant twelve months
• Declare invalid must check blood group yearly
• Void binding for a book