| FIENDS | Republican avoiding Buds and bad spirits (6) |
| SIKHISM | Republican avoiding skirmish about religion |
| ROTGUT | Pull one of Glastonbury's attractions after raising bad spirits (6) |
| DEMONS | Doctor Home's comes around in bad spirits (6) |
| SPRING | A fountainhead; the rise of the sea to its extreme height; or, a beginning, birth, dawn or freshest time, hence the vernal season of growth, when buds and plants bloom and burst forth (6) |
| SPROUT | Bud and by first half of spring will be blooming (6) |
| BEDAUB | The way to be a bud and smear it? (6) |
| IMPACT | Bad spirit is displayed over wildcat strike (6) |
| FRIEND | Republican admitted to bad spirit in China |
| ABBOTT | Comedy team Bud ... & Lou Costello |
| BOLLWEEVIL | A beetle that feeds on cotton buds and flowers (4,6) |
| MOODS | Sounds like that cow with policeman is in bad spirits (5) |
| IMPENDS | Threatens to finish in bad spirits (7) |
| DEMONSTRATOR | One shows bad spirits getting rubbish art back (12) |
| NEWT | Amphibian once associated with bad spirits |
| IMPS | Empty pledges added to Filbert's bad spirits |
| BULLFINCH | Known collectively as a bellowing, a colourful garden bird fond of pear, apple and gooseberry buds and blossom (9) |
| ASH | Tree related to lilac and olive with distinctive "sooty" buds and seeds resembling bunches of keys; or, the traditional name for the Old English letter or ligature AE or ae (3) |
| CLEAVERS | The goose-grass plant with "sticky" buds and stems attaching to woolly jumpers and dogs' coats (8) |
| APRIL | From a Latin word meaning "to open", thought to allude to buds and flowers opening in spring, the fourth month of the year and the one in which Cuckoo Day falls (5) |
