| WEDNESDAY | Ash - - -, the first day of Lent (9) |
| BOLE | Substantial part of eg Ash, the speaker's pitch (4) |
| ERUPTS | Spews lava and ash, the mountain ... |
| HOLM | He was Ash, the surprise company robot, in Alien. |
| ASH | The Ai ligature; an oleaceous tree bearing bunches of keys; cinders, such as those traditionally sprinkled on the first day of Lent; or, a pallid hue (3) |
| ASHWEDNESDAY | In Christian tradition, the first day of Lent (3,9) |
| ASHES | Symbol bestowed on the first day of Lent |
| APRILFOOL | Any victim of a prank played on the first day of the fourth month (5,4) |
| DREWBLOOD | What the vampires did on the first day of art class? |
| PARTRIDGE | Gift given on the first day of Christmas? (9) |
| GROUNDHOG | Hug Gordon which signals the first day of spring on 2nd February (9) |
| ASHTHURSDAY | Second day of Lent? |
| FORTIETH | Out to eat game - last day of Lent perhaps? (8) |
| 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) |
| REST | "Today is the first day of the ___ of your life" |
| RULED | "If I ... the world, every day would be the first day of spring; Every heart would have a new song t |
| GLORIOUS | The ____ Twelfth, term for the first day of the grouse-shooting season (8) |
