Clue contest No 47

Blooming thing barely chummy with Henry's cat, appallingly (13)

Def: blooming thing; anagram (appallingly) of humm (barely chummy) + Henry's cat

Friend jamming cover of rudimentary Sabbath song Late Bloomer (13)

CHUM (friend) containing (jamming) outer letters (cover of) RudimentarY + S (Sabbath) + ANTHEM (song)

It's blooming quiet, after leadership of Congressional House Republicans finally, timidly files articles (13)

MUM after C(ongressional) H(ouse) R(epublicans) + (timidl)Y (file)S + AN THE

Crush my Crackers, drinking song that's perennial (13)

CRUSHMY* "drinking" ANTHEM; def "perennial"

The bizarre Republican "many such cases" could symbolise love? (13)

THE is cased by R(epublican)MANYSUCH*. Def refers to Victorian flower language

Summer hyacinth? Setter wanted to conjure up autumn flower (13)

Definition: autumn flower. SUMMER HYACINTH without I (setter wanted) anagrammed (to conjure up)

My haters munch wild flower (13)

Anagram (wild) of MYHATERSMUNCH

Perennial problem including song of praise following church lines (13)

problem/SUM contains ANTHEM/song of praise, after church/CH RY/lines

Sign of love blossoming for drunk humans with chemistry, stripped of inhibitions on vacation (13)

HUMANSCHEMTRY* ("humans chemistry" minus "is")

Stalker cryptically rambling hush commentary obscured nothing (13)

HUSHCOMMENTARY* - o (obscuring nothing)

Dealt with trashy men, much? There's blooming loads of them (13)

*trashymenmuch (dealt with is the anagram indicator)

Chas accepts line for a song about a foreign letter for Daisy (13)

CH[A>>RY]S (CHaS accepts line, RY for A) + ANTHE(MU)M (song about a foreign letter). Def: daisy (family, i.e. asteraceae)

Hot tea, my Mrs and Unch cryptic - it’s a blooming delight! (13)

(H+TEAMYMRS+UNCH)*

"Flower" cryptically must mean "river", say – which I was originally wanting (13)

Anagram (cryptically) MUST MEAN R[iver] SAY WHICH, without (wanting) I WAS anagrammed (originally)

Cut hymens harm potentially later flowering beauties (13)

CUTHYMENSHARM*

One of the Four Gentlemen aroused Mynah's rectum with a little hamster (13)

One of the Four Gentlemen(definition Chinese art reference) aroused MYNAHS RECTUM with a little H[amster]

Chinese native's companion digesting all of lines to second hymn (13)

CH{RY+S+ANTHEM}UM

Flower Peter Griffin’s son and Lois delivered? (13)

(CHRIS AND THE MUM)~(CHRYSANTHEMUM)

Report of Malay dagger and the matriarch's bloomers (13)

Homophone of KRIS (Malay dagger) + AN(d) + THE + MUM (matriarch)

Mushy, mushy merchant gives flower (13)

(MUSHY MERCHANT)*

Heard Chris stutter after song of praise for enduring mom? (13)

Def: Enduring mom? (Chrysanthemums are perennial and sometimes called mums) - CHRYS (heard/homophone of Chris) + UM (stutter) after ANTHEM (song of praise)

“Plant” rhymes with “chant”, possibly, I’m not sure (13)

RHYMES and (with) CHANT anagram (possibly), UM (I'm not sure)

Perennial eccentric Methuselah, though half-cut, charms NY (13)

eccentric*METHU[selah]+CHARMSNY. Definition = 'perennial'

Blossom mixed hasty English in element wanting Jovian moon (13)

Blossom = definition. Anagram (mixed) of HASTY EN (English) in CHROMIUM (element) missing (wanting) IO (moon of Jupiter)

Flower from hospital cures man? Myth busted! (13)

Anag. ('busted') of [H (hospital) + CURES MAN MYTH]*.

What's In the Garden, i.e. debut finally released by innovative Eurythmics, including crowd-pleasing song? (13)

EURYTHMICS* without IE[debu]T, including ANTHEM (ref. Eurythmics' debut album "In the Garden")

Chinese flower blends: many crush them (13)

*MANYCRUSHTHEM

‘Rum’ can rhyme ‘Hum’: case of slight bloomer, perhaps (13)

Def.: Bloomer; Anagram (Rum) of CANRHYMEHUM + S(ligh)T

Call about hard-hitting special articles on secretive plant (13)

c{h}ry+s+(an+the)+mum call>CRY about hard>H hitting(Jux) special>S artilcles AN+THE on secretive>MUM def plant

Friend canned lines initially starting song - what a bloomer! (13)

CHUM (friend) containing (canned) RY (lines) S (initially starting) ANTHEM (song) - what a bloomer (def)

Common shower use Manc rhythm - sorted! (13)

Anagram of USE MANC RHYTHM

My chum Shatner murdered In Bloom (13)

My chum Shatner [anagram]

My man crush about the Kinks is blooming strong at this time of the year! (13)

Anagram (kinks) of MYMANCRUSH & THE. Def is an allusion to the autumn flowering plant.

Closing quartets dropped from Handel's musical thematic cryptic, confounded seal in Japan (13)

(HAN[dels] MUS[ical] THEM[atic] CRY[ptic])* Anagram (‘confounded’) of the remaining letters of four words after their ‘closing quartets’ (last four letters) are dropped. Definition: the Chrysanthemum seal is the imperial seal of Japan

East Asian native to weep over husband and start to sing hymn, united by mass (13)

C{H}RY + S[ing] + ANTHEM + U + M