| ANEMONES | Wood -; "lady's nightcaps" or windflowers blooming in ancient woodlands from March until May, scattered by the wind gods to herald spring according to myth (8) |
| GARLIC | Wild -; common name for ramsons, a plant with an unmistakable scent growing abundantly in shaded, damp woodlands from April onwards (6) |
| CAMPION | Pinky-red flower of meadows, country lanes, hedgerows and woodlands from spring to early autumn; or, the director of The Piano and Top of the Lake (7) |
| PORT | Drink a little nightcap or tonic (4) |
| MOSS | Glittering wood, pincushion, swan's-neck thyme, juniper haircap, feather... general word for a 400 million year-old bryophyte typically growing in ancient woodlands (4) |
| MERCURY | Dog's -; poisonous herbaceous perennial which is one of the first plants to emerge in ancient woodlands in the spring (7) |
| BLUEBELL | Springtime plant found in ancient woodlands of Britain and Ireland (8) |
| ANEMONE | Wood -; wildflower of ancient deciduous woodlands also known as lady's nightcap; a harbinger of spring (7) |
| WEALD | Exercise noisily in ancient woodland |
| WILDFLOWERS | Cow parsley, foxgloves, dog violets, lords and ladies, red campions ... native or naturalised plants of ancient woodlands, meadows, grasslands or old gardens (4,7) |
| TULIPFESTIVAL | Canadian ___ ___ (Annual event of Spring in Ottawa, until May 20th this year) |
| OXLIPS | Rare pale-yellow primulas of ancient woodlands, adopted as Suffolk's county flowers in 2002 (6) |
| DAHLIA | Blooming in all colours apart from blue, Mexico's national flower whose types include pompon, ball, waterlily, collarette and anemoneflowered, or powder puff (6) |
| BLUEBELLS | Native wildflowers often found blooming in woodlands at springtime (9) |
| TAIWAN | Island that didn't have a domestic COVID-19 outbreak until May, 2021 |
| PCRTESTS | COVID checks required at Ben Gurion until May 20 (1,1,1,5) |
| EASTER | - - - - - - cactus, houseplant, Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri, blooming from March to May (6) |
| COPPICE | Iron Age fort called Caesar's Camp is located in this area of ancient woodland in South Yorkshire, S |
| OPERAHATS | Given Falstaff's nightcaps, perhaps, they collapse in the foyer! (5,4) |
| HYDRANGEA | Blooming in Japan during its rainy season, colour-changing flower ranging from white and pink to blue and purple depending on the soil pH and cultivar (9) |
