Possible Clues:

• Upset by a furore the old have left for a few weeks
• Month of Lincoln's, Washington's birthdays
• Its days are numbered, oddly, in years like this
• In wintertime, iron used by beer-makers, we hear
• Candlemas month
• What 2 may mean
• Before one gets going on the march?
• Bear reacts with fury – this lasts less time than the others
• Fear Ruby will suffer in period of atonement
• Somehow bear fury that'll be shorter this year than last