| TETS | 'Festivals of the first day' |
| TET | Vietnamese holiday whose full name translates to "festival of the first day" |
| ALES | Morris dancers' private parties; or; malted beers once brewed in buildings next to churches for festivals of the same name (4) |
| MARCH | Time of the first days of spring |
| SEPT26 | One of the first days of Fall: abbr. + number |
| HIGHHOLIDAYS | The Jewish festivals of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana |
| CANDLEMAS | Festival of the purification of the Virgin Mary (9) |
| DEAD | The Festival of the ... will bring its The Dark Carnival show to Norwich this November (4) |
| EASTER | Festival of the Christian Church commemorating the Resurrection of Christ |
| BIHU | Harvest festival of the Assamese people observed three times a year, celebrating the change of seasons |
| ADVENT | Period immediately before the festival of the Nativity (6) |
| KITE | Something flown in the Festival of the Winds |
| EISTEDDFODS | Festivals of Welsh acts or deeds if dots are adjusted (11) |
| POTLATCH | Indian festival of the Pacific Northwest |
| LILITH | ___ Fair (top-grossing music festival of the 1990s) |
| OMER | The 49 days from the second day of Passover to the first day of Shavuoth |
| CALENDAR | Word for a book of accounts due on the first day of a Roman month originally, later an almanac, chart, diary or other system of divisions of the year (8) |
| PASCHALLAMB | In the Old Testament, the young sheep killed and eaten on the first day of the Passover (7,4) |
| NEWYEAR | In the Chinese calendar this will occur on the first day of the first lunar month (3,4) |
| WAFT | Penny the first day, doubling that penny the next day, then doubling the previous day's pennies and so on for |
