| MAYDAY | International Workers' Day and the traditional first day of spring |
| ANTIPASTI | The traditional first course of a formal Italian meal (9) |
| REIMS | Unofficial capital of the Champagne wine-growing region in France, site of the baptism of Clovis and the traditional coronation place of French kings (5) |
| MAY | International Workers' Day (2 wds.) |
| MAYFIRST | International Workers' Day |
| BEANSTALK | 'Jack and the -', traditional nursery tale (9) |
| RULED | "If I ... the world, every day would be the first day of spring; Every heart would have a new song t |
| WATTLE | The acacia plant celebrated in Australia on the first day of Spring |
| EQUINOX | The vernal ___ marks the first day of spring (7) |
| FARJEON | English writer whose bestloved poems include Cats and A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring), otherwise known as Morning has Broken (7,7) |
| ELEANOR | English writer whose bestloved poems include Cats and A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring), otherwise known as Morning has Broken (7,7) |
| ELEANORFARJEON | English writer whose best-loved poems include Cats and A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring), otherwise known as Morning has Broken |
| GROUNDHOG | Hug Gordon which signals the first day of spring on 2nd February (9) |
| TET | Holiday celebrating the first day of spring |
| MARCH | Time of the first days of spring |
| TAMARISK | Job around first day of spring perhaps to find tree |
| SNOW | The Hunters in the -; winter scene in a series of five extant paintings depicting the months/seasons including The Gloomy Day and The Hay Harvest by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (4) |
| SUPREMA | ____ tempestas the last part of the day, and the best perhaps |
| APRIL | 30 days of spring each year - about 49 after the middle of March |
| ANTIPASTO | Traditional first course of an Italian meal (9) |
