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Flowers grew on Sunday (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

roses

'flowers' is the definition.
(rose is a type of flower)

'grew on sunday' is the wordplay.
'grew' becomes 'rose' (rise can mean to grow or increase).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'sunday' becomes 's'.
'rose'+'s'='ROSES'

(Other definitions for roses that I've seen before include "Bloomers" , "Flowers, usually red, pink, white or yellow" , "Ramblers, for example" , "northern counties, symbolically" , "''. . . . . are red, violets are blue''" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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