| Text | Length |
| Spring best sellers | 19 |
| Sown things | 11 |
| Sowers' growers | 19 |
| Sets up a tournament | 20 |
| Sesames, e.g. | 13 |
| Sesame and sunflower | 20 |
| Ranks competitors | 17 |
| Ranked players | 14 |
| Ranked entrants | 15 |
| Provender for parrots | 21 |
| Pomegranate's plethora | 26 |
| Plants' beginnings | 22 |
| Plants-to-be | 12 |
| Plant origins | 13 |
| Pinecones, essentially | 22 |
| Parakeet treats | 15 |
| Open stars? | 11 |
| Nuts, for example | 17 |
| Most likely winners | 19 |
| Manitoba export | 15 |
| Gets things growing | 19 |
| Gardening packet contents | 25 |
| Gardener's packet | 21 |
| Garden purchases | 16 |
| Garden beginnings | 17 |
| Garden bagful | 13 |
| Garage-punk pioneers The ___ | 28 |
| Future sunflowers | 17 |
| Future sprouts | 14 |
| Food for birds | 14 |
| Fertilized, mature ovules | 25 |
| Favorites, often | 16 |
| Favorites, at times | 19 |
| Farmer's spring purchase | 28 |
| Farmer's plantings | 22 |
| Embryos | 7 |
| Does some spring farmwork | 25 |
| Core units? | 11 |
| Contents of some packets | 24 |
| Caraway product | 15 |
| Caraway produce | 15 |
| Burpee's packetful | 22 |
| Burpee products | 15 |
| Birdfood | 8 |
| Bird-feeder fillers | 19 |
| Bird feeder tidbits | 19 |
| Bird feeder contents | 20 |
| Avian food | 10 |
| Apple-core features | 19 |
| Apple trees, once | 17 |
| Agronomist's purchase | 25 |
| Agricultural supply | 19 |
| Acorns and lima beans | 21 |
| "Three Lions" band Lightning ___ | 42 |
| "Sowing the ___ of Love" | 34 |
| "Jollification" band Lightning ___ | 44 |
| "Dizzy Heights" band Lightning ___ | 44 |
| '65 "Pushin' Too Hard" band | 45 |
| Sower's source? | 19 |
| Sowers | 6 |
| Catalysts for new beginnings | 28 |
| Source of misgivings | 20 |
| Where bulbs may be bought | 25 |
| Sowing season | 13 |
| When to sow | 11 |
| Spring to a farmer | 19 |
| Down at the heels | 17 |
| Run-down in appearance, as a hotel | 34 |
| Hardly posh | 11 |
| Run-down in appearance | 22 |
| Hardly swanky | 13 |
| Like a pomegranate | 18 |
| Like a fleabag | 14 |
| Unkempt and run-down | 20 |
| Ramshackle | 10 |
| Poorly kept | 11 |
| Like skid row | 13 |
| Far from four-star | 18 |
| Down-at-the-heel | 16 |
| Debilitated | 11 |
| Somewhat disreputable | 21 |
| Sleazy | 6 |
| Shabby-looking | 14 |
| Far from posh | 13 |
| Down-at-heel | 12 |
| Unlikely to be in the travel guides | 35 |
| Suspect, as some hotels | 23 |
| Rundown in appearance | 21 |
| Run-down in appearance, as a motel | 34 |
| Like a sesame bagel | 19 |
| Like a fig | 10 |
| Like a dive bar | 15 |
| Gone to pot | 11 |
| Bedraggled | 10 |
| Adjective for Burpee's business? | 36 |
| Zero-star, say | 14 |
| Unattractive, as a neighborhood | 31 |
| Shabby, as a motel | 18 |
| Shabby looking | 14 |
| Shabby followers of a bee | 25 |
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