Spring

3. the Mel Brooks directed comedy featuring the Broadway musical "Spring-Time For Hitler: a Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden."
4. The 1904 stageplay which ends in its title character returning every year for spring-cleaning time, except when he forgets.
6. A paper basket full of treats hung on neighbors door.
9. The final month of the Hindu calendar, aligns with the month of March.
10. An allegorical genre of plays enjoyed during Medieval may celebrations, involving figures representing concepts such as vice or holiness.
12. The surname of early 20th century composer of "The Easter Parade."
14. The West African country which gained independence from the United Kingdom on March 6, 1957.

1. The 1973 horror film featuring a police officer attempting to discover the secrets of a town's Pagan May rituals.
2. The center-piece of a traditional may day celebration.
5. The Hindu celebration the night before Holi, involving the burning of a bonfire.
7. The animal that is said to bring eggs to good children at Eastertide.
8. The ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a month of fasting from dawn to sunset, which is ended by the holiday Eid al-Fitr
9. The saint whose traditional date of death, March 17, is a public holiday in Ireland.
11. A yeoman of Sherwood Forest, who originated in English ballads but later featured prominently in May Day celebrations, along with the figure Maid Marian.
13. What grows green in a traditional English counting song.