Across
- 3. Hindu festival of colours, love and Spring (4)
- 5. Mushroom variety only found in Spring (5)
- 6. Japanese cherry that famously blooms in Spring (6)
- 7. Violent weather phenomenon more common in Spring (7)
- 8. ‘… from Amsterdam’, song performed by Max Bygraves (6)
- 11. Chaucer’s pilgrims set out for this destination in April (10)
- 12. City that hosted the first St Patrick’s Day Parade in 1762 (3, 4)
- 14. Spanish word for Spring, also the name of a popular pasta dish (9)
- 16. The most widely celebrated Jewish holiday (8)
- 17. Name Pagans gave to the Spring Equinox (6)
- 18. Young bird that has not long left the nest (9)
Down
- 1. Tradition holds that if this creature does not see its shadow on 2nd February, Spring will come early (9)
- 2. These are flown by people in Bermuda on Good Friday (4)
- 4. Ancient Egyptian sculpture that directly faces the rising sun on the Spring equinox (5, 6)
- 9. Surname of poet who penned the line ‘when the world is puddle-wonderful’ (8)
- 10. Which Greek goddess associated with Spring also became queen of the underworld? (10)
- 13. Roman god of what lends his name to the month of March? (3)
- 15. Equinox that marks start of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere (6)
- 16. The sixth Sunday of Lent is ______ Sunday (4)
- 19. Flower associated with both the start of Spring and William Wordsworth (8)