| SIXMOREWEEKS | What we'll have of 3-Down, according to folklore, if 18-Across 62-Down sees his 50-Down on 65-Across |
| DIET | Cut down on 65-Across |
| AHAB | Character who's missing one of his 50-Down (but Melville doesn't tell us which one) |
| OLDER | What we'll have to be in future (5) |
| ELIZABETHANS | Generating heat in blazes - what we'll have been for years in February (12) |
| DECONSTRUCT | Break-down sees nerd cut cost drastically (11) |
| EDWARDESTLINCUMMINGS | Who wrote in his 50 Poems (1926), "he sang his didn't he danced his did"? (6,6,8) |
| STN | Stop on 65 Down |
| VIEWS | What a 16-down sees or holds (5) |
| AMISS | Dennis, England cricketer who made 11 centuries in his 50 Tests from 1966-77 (5) |
| APRIL | Thought to be from "to open", in allusion to the opening of buds and blossoms in spring, name of the fourth month and one whose "showers may bring flowers", according to folklore (5) |
| HILARY | - of Poitiers; saint whose feast day falls on January 13, the coldest day of the year according to folklore (6) |
| STORK | According to folklore, what kind of bird was said to deliver babies? (5) |
| BROWNIE | According to folklore, what name was given to little brown goblins, especially those who helped with the housework; the name was also used for the junior division of the Girl Guides? (7) |
| ELFCUPS | Scarlet mushrooms or "fairies' baths" found in moss and leaf litter, used by sprites to drink morning dew, according to folklore (3,4) |
| FOXGLOVES | Growing near dens of vixens and their male counterparts and loved by fairies according to folklore, one of the most poisonous plants in our flora, Digitalis (9) |
| GORSE | From "stand on end, bristle", "barley" and "hedgehog", the prickly evergreen furze or whin that, according to folklore, when in bloom with golden papilionaceous flowers, kissing is said to be in seaso |
| SNOWDROP | With a notable display at Welford Park and first blooming on Candlemas day according to folklore, a flower symbolising hope that heralds spring (8) |
| FAIRIES | According to folklore they live at the bottom of your garden |
| WORMS | Circular fungal infection of grass, according to folklore (5,4) |
