| VALENTINESDAY | Cards, red roses or chocolates are sent to express affection on this February occasion (9'1,3) |
| PRESIDENTSDAY | February occasion, some of whose honorees can be found in the answers to the five starred clues |
| XOXO | Way to express affection |
| LEAF | Spring appeared this February? (4) |
| TROT | Ace removed from pack of cards, red (4) |
| INABOX | How assorted chocolates are sold: 3 wds. |
| CACAO | Cocoa and chocolate are made from this tree's seeds (5) |
| CHILDPOOFCAMP | Where kids are sent to disappear? |
| PATCH | A plot for cabbages, roses or vegetables; a faux beauty spot; a cloth badge; a fool or jester; or, a piece of fabric for mending or quilting (5) |
| BED | Garden plot for vegetables or roses; or, a layer or stratum (3) |
| OAST | - house; traditional free-standing cowl-roofed kiln for drying hops before they are sent to the brewers (4) |
| RUBNOSES | Express affection introducing fancy bun to Wine Society |
| MACON | Portmanteau word for smoked and salted mutton; or, an appellation of red, rose or white wine produced in the most southerly Burgundian terroir (5) |
| RIOJA | Variety of red, rose or white Spanish wine with notes of vanilla (5) |
| BEDS | Garden plots for roses or vegetables; kelp forests; layers of oysters or mussels; or, shakedowns, bunks, truckles, four-posters etc (4) |
| FLORAL | Word used to describe fabric with a botanical print such as chintz; or, a perfume/scent redolent of narcissi, neroli, roses or other blossoms (6) |
| SIBERIA | Iris & Abe are sent to the wilderness (7) |
| SCREENERS | Advance copies of movies that are sent to award voters |
| APO | Where letters are sent to the mil. |
| TRY | These things are sent to ___ us (3) |
