| NIVE | "Vides ut alta 2 ____ candidum | Soracte" a sign of winter in Horace Odes 1.9 |
| STET | It stands (3 sing. subj.), vides ut alta ____ nive candidum Soracte, Horace C.1.9.1-2 |
| SORACTIS | "Hi ____ habent arces" (Aeneid 7.696); of a mountain also seen in Horace Odes 1.9 |
| MUS | Animal parvum, the height of absurdity in Horace (AP 139): ridiculus ____ |
| APICES | Mountain tops show a sign of winter, first of snow dropping |
| FALLOFSNOW | Fans follow up a sign of winter (4,2,4) |
| RIME | In Limerick, you say, a sign of winter (4) |
| SLUDGE | Slippy sled with rug right away a sign of winter? (6) |
| JUMPER | From spring to the middle of September and the end of winter in Jersey (6) |
| REMOTO | Far away (abl); in ____ gramine, in a secluded meadow, Horace Odes 2.3.6 |
| KRONER | Weekend reading for individual at the end of winter in European capital (6) |
| HARDY | Able to withstand the cold of winter in the open air, as plants |
| ICE | Sign of winter that is round the capital of Canada (3) |
| DID | Done in the past, as in Lilium candidum (and Monarda didyma)! (3) |
| NECKOFTHEWOODS | Part of the country surprisingly often shocked about first signs of winter occurring (4,2,3,5) |
| ANNIEERNAUX | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature who described her prose in the novel "Les Armoires Vides" as "brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene" (October, 2022) |
| REBUS | "Aequam memento ____ in arduis |servare mentem" Horace Odes 2.3.1-2: keep calm and carry on! |
| ARDUIS | Tough: "aequam memento rebus in ____ | servare mentem" Horace Odes 2.3.1-2 |
| NUANCE | Student finding feature of winter in autumn? (6) |
| FALLOVER | Tumble at start of winter in America (4,4) |
