The Original Crossword Puzzle for Kids and Their Favorite AdultsŒ

1. It's the October holiday full

of costumes and candy 6. Every year on Earth Day, millions of people around the world turn off their lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. to recognize Earth ____ (It happens this year on March 28th) 7. Let the fun begin: It's the day people smile and say, "Enjoy your weekend!" 9. They're the people who enjoy

1A the most 11. Which month is most likely to perform at the halftime show of a college football game? 12. The abbrieviation for the sixth day of the week (or what Little Miss Muffet did on her tuffet) 14. What everybody hopes they won't catch during the winter months 16. When one calendar asks another calendar to go out to the movies, they go on a ____ 17. Each year, on the first Monday in September, we all celebrate ____ Day* 19. Smart question: Which day has a name that makes it think it's the "brightest" day of the week? 21. Wintertime rhyme time: I'm the last national holiday of every year. When I come around, I bring holiday cheer. What am I? 22. If enough of it falls in January,

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for a child to learn to spell 4. The sweltering period spanning July 3rd to August 11th is known as "the ____ days of summer" 5. Woe on Wall Street: The stock market _____ was the big fall in the fall of 1929 8. The Muslims' month-long season of fasting and prayer, ______ always starts on the ninth month of the 12-month Islamic calendar (This year, it begins on March 22nd) 10. Despite its focus on the future, New Year's Eve falls in this month, bringing the old year to a close 13. Perhaps to ensure us a long holiday weekend, Thanksgiving is always celebrated on a ______ 15. Emphatic season's greeting with a bonus rhyme inside: "Have a ____ Merry Christmas" 17. Tradition holds that wearing red underwear at the start of the Chinese New Year will ward off bad _____ 18. Shabbat (or the Sabbath) is the Jewish day of _____, strictly observed by the orthodox faithful each Saturday 20. Just as morning marks the start of a new day, January is the ____ of a new year

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