| VERNAL | It's like spring in the cavern already (6) |
| GROTTO | Got worried about the decay in the cavern (6) |
| ALASKA | State possible response to 'will she dance with me?' in the Cavern Club? (6) |
| STAFFA | Island in the Inner Hebrides that includes the cavern Fingal's Cave (6) |
| CANYON | Where the cavern was in which dwelt, excavating for a mine, the miner, forty-niner, and his daughter |
| CRAVEN | Very much afraid the cavern will collapse (6) |
| FRISKY | Like spring lambs, initially fickle and hairy (6) |
| BLANCA | Anemone - - - - - -, herbaceous perennial with blue, white and pink daisy-like spring flowers (6) |
| MILDER | Like spring, vis-a-vis winter |
| ASWELL | Also like spring (2,4) |
| ABLOOM | Like spring flowers |
| BAT | One possibly hanging in the Cavern Club |
| MATHEWSTREET | Location, in Liverpool, of the Cavern Club, where the Beatles used to perform (6,6) |
| VOAR | Spring in the far north, very near the pole on a ship |
| SPROUTS | Talks about rain and the signs of spring in the garden (7) |
| ORSA | Company that briefly resurrected the Siata Spring in the early 1970s (4) |
| NISAN | The first month of spring in the Hebrew and Babylonian calendars (5) |
| ANGEL | _ King, involved in a car crash last spring in the Dales (5) |
| MARCHEQUINOX | It marks the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere |
| LEAFLET | Notice, perhaps, the first sign of spring in the garden (7) |
