Marching into Spring

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Across
  1. 1. outing or occasion that involves taking a packed meal to be eaten outdoors
  2. 5. the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring
  3. 8. a game played by two opposing teams of five or six people, usually on an indoor court
  4. 9. get up from lying, sitting, or kneeling; move from a lower position to a higher one; come or go up
  5. 10. hairy, often black and yellow, genus Bombus that nest in underground colonies
  6. 12. meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky
  7. 15. Jewish preacher and religious leader who became the central figure of Christianity; son of God
  8. 17. bulbous plant that typically bears bright yellow flowers with a long trumpet-shaped center
  9. 20. visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level
  10. 21. a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person
  11. 22. opposite of old
  12. 23. cold but fresh and enlivening
  13. 25. a rabbit, especially a young ones
  14. 26. tapering orange-colored root eaten as a vegetable
  15. 27. pleasantly windy
  16. 29. vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop
  17. 30. seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs typically surrounded by a brightly colored corolla and a green calyx
Down
  1. 2. round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red
  2. 3. larva of a butterfly or moth, having a segmented wormlike body with three pairs of true legs and several pairs of appendages similar to legs
  3. 4. immune response by the body to a substance, especially pollen, fur, a particular food, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive
  4. 6. plant having compound leaves with three small leaflets, especially a clover or wood sorrel; used as a national emblem of Ireland
  5. 7. happy and optimistic
  6. 11. making a low, continuous humming or murmuring sound; full of excitement or activity
  7. 13. game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases
  8. 14. a piece of ground used to grow vegetables, fruit, herbs, or flowers
  9. 16. small ovoid candy with a hardened sugar coating over a chewy center; bean-shaped sweet with a brightly colored coating around a gelatinous filling
  10. 18. a sweet food made with sugar or other sweeteners, typically formed in small, shaped pieces and flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts
  11. 19. flower of a seed plant
  12. 24. any of numerous flying insects of the order Lepidoptera that are active by day, characterized by clubbed antennae, a slender body, and broad, often conspicuously marked wings
  13. 25. warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak and (typically) by being able to fly
  14. 28. oval or round object laid by a female bird, reptile, fish, or invertebrate