| ACONITE | Winter -; buttercup-yellow woodland flower, often one of the first to bloom in the New Year with snowdrops (7) |
| OXLIP | Yellow woodland flower |
| CELANDINE | Lesser -; yellow bloom with heartshaped leaves in the buttercup family which is one of the first woodland flowers of the year (9) |
| KIRIBATI | Country in the Pacific Ocean which is one of the first to see in the New Year (8) |
| TIMESSQUARE | Facebook Status: "10-9-8-7 ... Ringing in the New Year with 1,000,000 of my newest, closest friends!" |
| PRIMROSE | First name of one of the Larkin sisters in The Darling Buds of May; a pale yellow colour; or, a woodland flower (8) |
| ASTRONOMY | Galileo was one of the first to use the telescope in this science of the stars |
| BELLS | Those ringing in the New Year with a Scotch? |
| RESOLUTION | Decision to change a destructive habit, form a new favourable one or to set a goal, especially in the New Year (10) |
| VIOLET | One of the colours of a rainbow; or, a woodland flower related to the pansies (6) |
| MERIAN | Naturalist and entomologist noted for her accurate watercolours of insects and plants who was one of the first to document the metamorphosis of the butterfly (6) |
| WHITE | Author of The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne who was one of the first to speculate that swallows migrate despite the traditional belief that they hibernate (5) |
| KIMBA | This Japanese anime of the 60s was one of the first to achieve worldwide popularity, ... The White L |
| INUIT | People who celebrate the new year with the Quviasukvik festival |
| CASCADE | A small waterfall, often one of many that fall in stages down a slope (7) |
| ANNASEWELL | Author whose only novel is one of the first to be written from the perspective of a non-human character |
| PEANUT | It's often one of two in a pod (6) |
| SAULOFTARSUS | One of the first to go on missions is a namedropper with letters after his name (4,2,6) |
| ROMANTICNOVEL | Pamela was one of the first to tender for The Great Gatsby (8,5) |
| KNEES | Jarno Saarinen was one of the first to get these onto the Tarmac. (5) |
