Spring for Hangman 🌸

Clues for every answer

A one-line clue for every answer, easy to hard. They're the same clues the game's 💡 Hint shows, so you can read them out when you run your own game.

Bud

Undeveloped shoot at the tip of a stem or where a leaf joins it; some open into flowers.

Seed

Plant part holding a baby plant and a food store inside a protective coat; it can be sown.

Nest

Place where a bird lays and keeps its eggs warm and raises its young; it can be a grassy cup or a burrow.

Rain

Water droplets that fall from the sky; light kinds are drizzle and heavy, long ones a downpour.

Bloom

A flower, or the opening of flowers; also the powdery coating on fresh grapes and plums.

Chick

A young bird, especially of the farmyard fowl that people mostly keep for meat and eggs.

Green

Colour between cyan and yellow; in surveys it is the colour people most link with nature and spring.

Warm

Fairly high in temperature, often pleasantly so; in guessing games it means close to the answer.

Sunny

Describes bright weather or a bright day; said of a person, it means cheerful.

Bee

Winged insect that feeds on nectar and pollen; it lives on every continent except Antarctica.

Grow

To get bigger or develop; gardeners do it to plants by cultivating them.

Mild

Of weather: fairly warm, especially less cold than expected; of food, not strong in flavour.

Lamb

A young sheep, especially one under nine months old; its mother is called a ewe.

Egg

Vessel in which a baby animal grows until it hatches; birds' ones have a protective shell.

Kite

Tethered flying craft with wings that the wind lifts; it often has a tail to guide it.

April

Fourth month of the year, 30 days long; its name may come from Latin 'to open', like flowers.

Fresh

Newly made or picked; of food, not dried, frozen or spoiled; of water, not salty.

Daisy

Lawn flower with white rays round a yellow middle; its name is thought to come from 'day's eye'.

Cub

Young of animals such as the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger; red foxes breed once a year, in spring.

Pollen

Powder made by most flowers so that seeds can form; an allergy to the grass kind is hay fever.

Blossom

Flowers of fruit trees like plum, peach and apple, which flower in great numbers for a time in spring.

Daffodil

Mostly yellow and white spring flower with a trumpet-shaped middle; it is the national flower of Wales.

Tulip

Bright spring flower grown from a bulb; its name is thought to come from a Turkish word for turban.

Sapling

A young tree, bigger than a seedling; the word can also mean a young person nearly grown up.

Tadpole

Young stage of a frog or other amphibian; most live in water and have gills and a swimming tail.

Hatching

What a young animal does when it breaks out of its egg, or what the egg does when it cracks open.

Duckling

Downy young waterfowl; after it comes out of the egg, its mother leads it to water.

Sprout

New growth from a seed or plant; some kinds, such as bean ones, are grown to be eaten.

Showers

Bursts of rain that start and stop suddenly, often strong and short-lived, falling from cumulus clouds.

Meadow

Open field of grasses and other non-woody plants, often used for hay; it attracts lots of wildlife.

Bluebell

Spring bulb whose nodding, sweet-scented violet flowers can carpet ancient woods; it is protected under UK law.

Crocus

Low-growing plant from a corm with white, yellow, orange or purple flowers; one kind gives us saffron.

Easter Egg

Chocolate treat wrapped in coloured foil, or a dyed hen's shell, that children hunt for when hidden.

Lambing

When ewes give birth; sheep mostly mate in autumn and are pregnant for around five months.

Dandelion

Garden and roadside plant whose round seed heads, sometimes called clocks, send fluffy parachutes off on the wind.

Frogspawn

Eggs wrapped in jelly, laid in ponds and other water, that hatch into tadpoles; sometimes laid in clumps.

Birdsong

Tuneful sounds made by feathered creatures, linked with territory and courtship; in Europe mostly by males.

Cherry Blossom

Sakura: flowers of ornamental Prunus trees, seen as Japan's national flower and admired at hanami parties.

Mother's Day

Celebration honouring mums, held on different dates around the world, most often in March or May.

May Day

European festival, usually on the first of the fifth month, with ribbon dancing round a tall pole and a crowned queen.

Germination

Process by which a plant begins to grow from a seed or spore; key needs include water, air and the right temperature.

Pollination

Moving tiny grains from a flower's anther to a stigma so seeds can form; bees, birds, bats and wind can carry them.

Snowdrop

One of the first bulbs to flower in spring, with a single hanging white bell; it can form carpets of white.

Greenhouse

Building with see-through walls and roof that lets sunlight in and traps its heat so plants grow in cold weather.

Primrose

Typically pale yellow, delicately scented early-spring flower; its Latin name hints it is among the first to appear.

Hyacinth

Fragrant spring-blooming plant grown from a bulb, with spikes of flowers; native mainly to the Eastern Mediterranean.

Wildflower

Bloom that grows naturally rather than being sown or planted on purpose; people across the UK voted for one as their county's emblem.

Rejuvenate

To make someone or something young again, or to give it fresh energy and vigour.

Blossoming

Opening out into flowers on a plant; also, starting to thrive and flourish.

Verdant

Green in colour or lush with plants; it can also describe someone who is inexperienced.

Catkin

Slim, often drooping spike of flowers with tiny or no petals, found on hazel, birch and willow; usually wind-pollinated.

Vernal

Formal word meaning to do with spring or happening in it; it can also mean fresh and youthful.

Forsythia

Shrub of the olive family whose bright yellow flowers come out in early spring, before its leaves.

Magnolia

Tree or shrub known for large, fragrant, bowl- or star-shaped flowers and cone-like fruits that open in autumn.

Photosynthesis

How most plants and algae turn light energy, typically sunlight, into chemical energy; the usual kind releases oxygen.

Vernal Equinox

Usually falls on 20 March, when day and night are almost equal; in most cultures it marks the start of northern spring.

Hawthorn

Prickly shrub or small tree of the rose family, with white or pink flowers in May and early June.

Wisteria

Woody climbing vine that twines round supports, with drooping clusters of flowers; the Japanese kind twines clockwise, seen from above.

Rhododendron

Woody plant whose name is Greek for 'rose' and 'tree'; it is Nepal's national flower, and azaleas belong to it.

Clocks Go Forward

In the UK it happens at 1am GMT on the last Sunday of March, starting British Summer Time.