New Years

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Across
  1. 6. there are a lot of _______________ around the New Year
  2. 7. Time balls and ball drops were created to help ___________ coordinate their navigation equipment and were dropped everyday at 1pm
  3. 9. two teens crashed ________’s NYE party for autographs
  4. 11. The confetti in Times Square has thousand of people’s _________ written on them.
  5. 12. Americans consume around 360 million glasses of this item on NYE.
  6. 15. the twelve grapes of
  7. 16. Percent of ER on NYE are drug/alcohol related.
  8. 17. 3,000 pounds of ________ are cleaned up after NYE.
  9. 19. You might ________ someone at Midnight
  10. 23. This custom involves opening a bible to a random page and without looking, pointing to a particular passage, thought to predict your future.
  11. 24. A Scottish song traditionally sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on the new year
  12. 26. Danish tradition of throwing plates and family and friend’s _____________
  13. 27. Take out, then take in, Bad Luck will _____________. Take in, then take out, good luck comes about.
  14. 29. The month Babylonians celebrated New Years
  15. 30. is a commonly wore color of underwear worn on NYE to bring good fortune in the coming year.
Down
  1. 1. the second Friday in January is called?
  2. 2. the southern tradition intended to bring good luck and prosperity for the coming year eating ________________ and black eyed peas.
  3. 3. January root Latin word “lanua” means
  4. 4. In 1991 the Novelty ________ came out.
  5. 5. A _________ van led to the iconic NYE Times Square ball drop.
  6. 8. 2026 New Year’s glasses are ___________________ this year and would have been fine if they made the other eyehole in the 6. Seriously why do they say 200^26 like this isn’t 200 to the 26th power. Please. I don’t understand. Why.
  7. 10. The Times Square ball is____________ feet in diameter
  8. 13. there is a new _______ on the ball every year chosen by Waterford
  9. 14. set January 1st in the Roman calendar as the New Year.
  10. 17. Lobster and ________ are considered bad luck food. Due to their ability to move backwards
  11. 18. the Roman god representing the New Year has two faces, one looking back and one looking forward.
  12. 19. first to ring in the NY.
  13. 20. incorporating a________ food into your NY meal symbolizes that the year has come full circle
  14. 21. the 2017 New Year incident in Dothan went viral for its phallic shaped ________ drop for kids.
  15. 22. was among the last to adopt the Gregorian calendar in 1926
  16. 25. The ball drop has been celebrated every year since 1907, expect the years 1942 and 1943 where a moment of silence was observed instead because of______________
  17. 28. New Year is celebrated for an entire month starting late January early February.