Across
- 4. Late bloomer, for us
- 5. Common singer
- 7. Florid arbor
- 9. Leaves for spring
- 11. Declutterer
- 12. Trekker's home
- 16. Plant accelerator
- 17. Hidden until the end
- 19. Not wester
- 21. Gets the worm
- 22. Made an early exit?
- 23. Cecil's best
Down
- 1. Swoops down for lunch
- 2. Leaven buster or mystic's pyre
- 3. Early, not earliest
- 6. A matter of degree
- 8. Colorful acid-lover
- 10. Prolific annoyance
- 13. Schubert's cold cycle
- 14. Central avenue?
- 15. "Porcine" digger
- 18. Seed's dream
- 20. Earliest of the harbingers