Happy Birthday Dad. A crossword of 1941.

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Across
  1. 5. famous wartime poem written during an air raid
  2. 6. Longest running Japanese leader that year
  3. 7. A vegetarian is born, now passed
  4. 8. Dominating the skies over British cities
  5. 10. RAF aircraft were the first to benefit from this
  6. 12. a bill is passed for a new public holiday in US
  7. 13. A folk legend is born
  8. 14. All persons born here now declared US
  9. 15. Warner Bros.' No. 1 box-office draw
  10. 16. A writer commits suicide
  11. 17. A talented sportsman is born to be a captain 23 years later
  12. 20. An essential mastermind of mathematics
  13. 21. famous wartime cartoonist
  14. 22. an average cost of 60 pounds a month
  15. 23. famous painting by Edward hopper
  16. 24. The only sport that wasn't suspended in WWII
  17. 25. 1/3 POWs escaped by maps being smuggled in this
Down
  1. 1. Raphael Lemkin coined this term by combining greek and latin
  2. 2. A famous elephant is welcomed
  3. 3. Ernest hemingway's work that year
  4. 4. Longest screen kiss of over 3 minutes
  5. 9. Time magazine person of the year
  6. 11. chemically identified and preferable to uranium
  7. 18. Look out Russia!
  8. 19. The turning point for US involvement in WWII