| SEASON | From the Latin meaning "a sowing", each of the four natural divisions of the year - spring, summer, autumn or winter (6) |
| SEASONS | Four natural divisions of the year (7) |
| SEASONAL | According to the natural divisions of the year (8) |
| CALENDAR | Word for a book of accounts due on the first day of a Roman month originally, later an almanac, chart, diary or other system of divisions of the year (8) |
| MIAMI | The last word of each of the four theme entries is a member of a professional sports team from this city |
| MOSER | Daughter of a Swiss goldsmith, the youngest founding member of the Royal Academy who painted Spring, Summer, Bouquet of Flowers and a room at Frogmore House (5) |
| BARKLEM | Pen name of the children's author and illustrator Gillian Gaze, who wrote the seasonal autumn, spring, summer and winter stories based on the miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge (7) |
| AIR | One of the four natural elements |
| PRONG | Each of the four projecting pointed parts at the end of a fork (5) |
| WISECRACK | Witticism ... or, literally, a description of the answer to each of the four starred clues? |
| BIRD | Each of the four starred entries begins with a four-letter one of these |
| MONTH | One of the twelve divisions of the year |
| STEFFIGRAF | The only tennis player to have won each of the four Grand Slam singles titles at least four times |
| HIGHEND | Top-of-the-line, and what each of the four longest puzzle answers begins with? |
| COMEONLINES | Words from a pickup artist, and, if reinterpreted, each of the four theme answers |
| SILENT | Like the opening letter of each of the four longest answers |
| VETERANS | This puzzle's honorees, one of which is spread out in each of the four longest answers |
| BASE | Each of the four "stations" in a softball-like game mentioned in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (4) |
| ELEMENT | Each of the four theme entries ends in an astrological one of these |
| LETSCALLITADAY | "I think we're done here" ... or a hint to translating each of the four shaded words in this puzzle |
