| CROCI | First flowers of spring, perhaps |
| SNOWDROP | First flower of spring (8) |
| ARCHITECTURAL | Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design (13) |
| ENGLISHPRIMROSE | Yellow flowers of spring |
| DAFFODILS | Bright yellow flowers of Spring |
| RATHE | Early-blooming, such as flowers of Spring, to a poet |
| TAMARISK | Job around first day of spring perhaps to find tree |
| MIDAPRIL | Address covered papers from media agency to briefly sort by the Ides of Spring perhaps (3-5) |
| DANSEUR | Participant in The Rite of Spring perhaps is rent asunder |
| MARITIME | Concerned with the main period after the start of spring, perhaps |
| PHENOLOGY | Study of seasonal changes and timings throughout nature's calendar such as the first cuckoo call in spring, first flowers/fruits and leaf fall (9) |
| PRIMROSE | One of spring's "first flowers" (8) |
| HYACINTH | Word that refers to a blue gem of the ancients, possibly aquamarine or sapphire; cinnamon stone; brown, red or yellow zircon; purple of various hues; a bluebell/larkspur that sprang from the blood of |
| BLUEBELL | Woodland flower of spring (8) |
| PARADISE | Place for first flowers presumably is in March |
| PRIMROSES | Formal girl sent first flowers (9) |
| TIDE | Spring, perhaps, for a change of diet (4) |
| CYMES | In botany, inflorescences in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems, eg. African violet (saintpaulia) (5) |
| CYME | In botany, an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem, while subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems, as in African violet (saintpaulia) (4) |
| ZINNIAS | Related to the daisies and with cultivars including Peppermint Stick, Purple Prince, Queeny Lime Red, Sunbow and Swizzle, the first flowers grown in space (7) |
