| SPINK | Chaffinch's folk name embodying a rosy hue; or, lady's smock, blooming during the season of the cuckoo (5) |
| KESEY | Creator of One Flew Over the Cuck-oo's Nest |
| AUTUMN | One of the seasons of the year (6) |
| TULIP | Flower blooming during an annual festival in Holland, Mich. |
| CHAGALL | Artist, name embodying hideous woman (7) |
| MARKMCGWIRE | He hit a record 70 home runs in 1998, but is banned from Cooperstown due to his admitted use of PEDs during the season |
| HAYFEVER | Dietary concern for Arabian with high temperature leads to irritation during the season (3,5) |
| ORANGETIP | Nectaring on cuckoo flowers or "lady's-smock", a "lady of the woods" butterfly whose male specimens bear a characteristic tangerine-coloured patch on either forewing (6-3) |
| PINK | Colour of gin flavoured with rhubarb, red berries or Angostura bitters; a scarlet hunting jacket; or, a chaffinch's call (4) |
| COUNTRYHOUSE | Property of nobleman with rosy hue, blitzed? |
| RUDDY | Of rosy hue |
| FIN | Chaffinch's tailpiece? (3) |
| SPINNER | Folk name for a nightjar; a trout lure; a rapidly rotating cricket ball delivered by a bowler of the same name; or, a whirligig (7) |
| AQUA | Latin "water" serving as the linguistic root for terms describing sea life, a blue-green hue or the first half of a "regia" or "royal" acidic mixture which dissolves the noble "king of metals", gold ( |
| BLOOM | A bluebell, daisy, pansy, pink, sweet pea or other inflorescence; the state of flowering; a rosy glow; a time of greatest beauty, freshness, prosperity or vigour; or, powderiness on chocolate or a fru |
| BLUSH | From "burn, light a fire, shine", a reddening of the face in response to discomfiture; a rosy glow; pale rose wine; a pinkish tinge; or, a group of boys, peaches or redbreasts (5) |
| FLORA | Plant life collectively; or, the Roman goddess of (blossoming) plants and of the season of spring (5 |
| YULETIDE | Old word for the season of Christmas or, a red-flowered cultivar of the Camellia sasanqua (8) |
| DUN | Related to "dark, dusk", word for a clay-bank, dingy, dull, greyish, mousey or muddy hue; or, a horse of this colour, typically with a black dorsal stripe, mane and points (3) |
| CITRINE | From Old French for "lemon-coloured", a variety of quartz in a hue or shade reminiscent of said fruit (7) |
