| EDIBLE | Stay over with the French and like their food (6) |
| CELANDINES | Buttercup-like blooms brightening winter's demise with illimitable golden galaxies, thus delighted in by Wordsworth and, like their etymological namesakes the swallows, regarded as "spring messengers" |
| EDIBLES | Stay over with the French food (7) |
| REMAIN | Stay over with me in wet weather (6) |
| NESTLE | Retreat with the French and make yourself comfortable (6) |
| ELATED | A date with the French and is in high spirits (6) |
| HIDING | Covering over with the whitewash, perhaps (6) |
| FOREST | Following others to stay over in green area (6) |
| FABRIC | "And, like the baseless ____ of this vision / The cloud-capped towers ..." (The Tempest) |
| KENNEL | Where Rover might stay over |
| PRELAW | Like some students at this university (and like the letters you need) |
| SATINY | Perhaps like 18's attractiveness and like 12? (6) |
| ASPIRE | Have ambition and, like before, I enter (6) |
| PREFER | Quietly allude to and like better (6) |
| KIGALI | Kind gays and like provide 50% of capital (6) |
| GOTHIC | Become endlessly stupid, and like horror stories (6) |
| TIARAS | Note a queen and like headwear (6) |
| SHROVETUESDAYS | Somehow she'd stay over with us for 48 flipping hours! (6,8) |
| LIMITS | My sweetheart, a registered nurse from Ilminster, is rather wild and likes to push the boundaries (6) |
| DWELL | Stay over with dirty lecturer (5) |
