| SPRINGBOARD | After season of growth directors will provide something for fresh impetus |
| GROUNDNUT | Good-o! Head will provide something to eat |
| STARBOARD | Outstanding group of directors will be right at sea! (9) |
| BINGE | With 7-Across, enjoy season after season of |
| CUTTING | Keen to provide something for future growth |
| LECTERN | Initially Learning Centre might provide something for reading (7) |
| ENTREAT | Beseech topless males to provide something for free (7) |
| ALMS | Most realms provide something for the poor (4) |
| SPRINGER | Season of growth, er - for a breed of 27ac. (8) |
| BROWNING | Poet provides something for the gravy (8) |
| SPRING | A fountainhead; the rise of the sea to its extreme height; or, a beginning, birth, dawn or freshest time, hence the vernal season of growth, when buds and plants bloom and burst forth (6) |
| GOBAD | Green light for scholar and director will happen after use-by date (2,3) |
| CREATEASCENE | What the director will do is cause trouble for everyone to see (6,1,5) |
| UPTIMES | Fresh impetus when things are working (7) |
| TIMESUP | Pencils down, no more minutes - a fresh impetus is needed (5,2) |
| SOMERSAULT | Perform acrobatic feat season after season, we hear |
| SHOOTDOWN | Wipe out the argument for what director will do in the county up north (5,4) |
| BOOSTS | Gives fresh impetus to (6) |
| AGES | Grows season after season |
| SPEARMINT | Toss of spare coin may provide something to chew (9) |
