| FALLINLOVE | What young man may do in spring or autumn with current novel's revision (4,2,4) |
| TAKEHISBOW | Man may do so before and after playing violin (4,3,3) |
| FICTION | Group providing advance for current novels, say (7) |
| PROPOSEATOAST | What the best man may do to a topper, as so nervous |
| TRIPOD | Stand or fall with the party that's returned (6) |
| APOLLO | Handsome young man may get Oscar after a ballot (6) |
| LAD | Young man may drop out from illness |
| EQUINOX | One beast like another with no tail in spring or autumn (7) |
| ACTIONVERB | Spring or fall, e.g. |
| CROCUS | Hardy, dwarf plant, from a corm, appearing in spring or autumn (6) |
| NIPANDTUSK | What young elephants do for fun? |
| ALLFIREDUP | Fully aroused from fall with pride lost eating you (3,5,2) |
| HAZEL | Associated with a species of dormouse, an often coppiced tree with filberts represented in heraldic avellane crosses and with catkins or lamb's-tails in spring; or, the greenish-brownish colour of sai |
| SET | Young onion or shallot bulb grown from seed in a previous season to be planted in spring for a late summer or autumn harvest (3) |
| YEAR | With typically 12 full moons, time between successive spring or autumn equinoxes marking the cycle of the seasons according to the Gregorian calendar (4) |
| MAGNOLIA | Tree or shrub with goblet- or star-shaped flowers in spring; or, an off-white colour often used for household interior paint (8) |
| EAVESDROP | What happens in autumn with departure of the first bug |
| SEASON | Spring or autumn |
| HIP | Vitamin C-rich scarlet fruit of the wild rose, found in hedgerows and woodlands in autumn with haws (3) |
| FLORAL | Kind of arrangement in spring or in fall perhaps (6) |
