| DANDELIONWINE | 1957 Ray Bradbury title that serves as a metaphor for packing all of the joys of summer into a singl |
| CRAMBE | ___ cordifolia erupts in summer into a cloud of tiny white blooms above a huge rosette of leaves (6) |
| WINSTONE | Film and TV actor born in London in 1957, Ray -------- (8) |
| SOMETHINGWICKED | Start of a Ray Bradbury title ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 26-, 49- and 62-Across |
| PIONEER | Innovator puts singl jetty out (7) |
| YOUTHFUL | It's not me at half-time returning nearly full of the joys of spring (8) |
| CAFFEINE | The designer of Starbucks' logo told The Seattle Times in 2011 that he chose a mythical siren "as a metaphor for the allure of" this |
| ONION | Vegetable used by Hannah Arendt as a metaphor for the organisational structure of totalitarianism |
| TIMBUKTU | Town in Mali used as a metaphor for a distant place (8) |
| MIRA | From the Latin meaning "wonderful" or "astonishing", a pulsating variable red giant in Cetus the Whale that serves as a prototype for its own class of stars (4) |
| EPILOGUE | A section at the end of a book or play that serves as a conclusion to what has happened (8) |
| MOCKING | Ceature used by Harper Lee as a metaphor for innocence (11) |
| GODZILLA | Film monster originally intended as a metaphor for nuclear weapons |
| SILO | Farm building used as a metaphor for poor internal communication |
| PATTERN | An object such as a swatch or a dressmaker's paper template that serves as a model or a specimen; or, chintz, floral, hound's-tooth, Paisley, tartan, William Morris's Lodden or any other such decorati |
| OWNGOAL | Football disaster that has become a metaphor for any action that backfires upon a person (3,4) |
| BATSMOTEL | Horror drama that serves as a prequel to "Psycho" ... but set in a lodge full of flying mammals? |
| CAIRNS | City in Far North Queensland, Australia, that serves as a starting point for people wanting to visit the Great Barrier Reef |
| LEOROSTEN | "The Joys of Yiddish" author |
| LEO | "The Joys of Yiddish" author Rosten |
