Tasnim’s Birthday Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Before flowers bloom, they’re here (4)
  2. 3. Date made for jesters and jokers (5,5)
  3. 6. Stubborn sign of the zodiac, starting April 20 (6)
  4. 11. When day and night are equal, marking the start of spring (7)
  5. 12. One of April’s softly fragrant birth flowers, born to represent the month (5,3)
  6. 13. Bard whose life began and ended in April (10)
  7. 14. Early morning sound of April (8)
  8. 15. April’s dreaded deadline for many (5)
Down
  1. 2. Stone of strength and sparkle for April-borns (6)
  2. 4. Prime figure in charge when you arrived (3,4,5)
  3. 5. Newborns in fields, common in April (4)
  4. 7. They might precede May’s floral show (7)
  5. 8. Holiday with eggs and bunnies, always shifting (6)
  6. 9. It’s no cost to be born where the royals might go (5,4)
  7. 10. Field full of wildflowers, often in spring (6)
  8. 12. Seasonal shift when nature wakes up (6)