Possible Clues:

• Add flavour with salt and pepper
• The deep issue - spring, perhaps
• ' - - of mists ...' (Keats)
• Time to see your boy, by the sound of it
• Time to add spices
• That sailor-boy is one of four
• Add salt and pepper to, say
• One of the four of your sailor-boys
• Add taste to; part of year
• Time of year when one's messing about