| POULENC | He composed in Spring, mostly about the first half of Lent |
| MOA | Bird once grumbled about the first half (3) |
| REAMS | Dreams mostly about the paper (5) |
| LATTICE | Screen Room At The Top during first half of Lent |
| SELECT | Choose religious group around first half of Lent |
| SPRIG | You twig it in spring mostly (5) |
| WATERWHEEL | Bad weather in spring mostly does for attachment to mill |
| LEA | Land growing grass in spring, mostly |
| WILLS | Playing in the first half of the twentieth century, she is still considered to be one of the greatest all-time tennis stars of the US and the world; Helen ... Moody |
| HARPSICHORD | Keyboard instrument in which strings are set in vibration by plucking. It was one of the most important keyboard instruments in European music from the 16th through the first half of the 18th century. |
| CELERY | You can see this plant of the parsley family growing all around the outskirts of Croyle in the first half of the year (6) |
| DONIZETTI | Gaetano ---, a leading Italian composer of the bel canto opera style in the first half of the 19th Century (9) |
| BID | Offer a price for the first half of the burr marigold genus of plants (in the aster family), especially at an auction! (3) |
| PALMER | Who became the first footballer in Premier League history to score four goals in the first-half of a match? (6) |
| SMUTS | Longtime prime minister of South Africa in the first half of the 20th century, Jan ... |
| LOU | First name of the first half of the comedy team, Abbott and Costello |
| LEHAR | He composed and arranged the first half of "The Harlequins" (5) |
| CERES | Body in our solar system that was considered a planet in the first half of the 19th century |
| LICHFIELD | Cathedral city in Staffordshire which only has letters from the first half of the alphabet in its name (9) |
| METTERNICH | Austrian statesman, a dominant figure for more than 30 years in European affairs of the first half of the 19th century (10) |
