NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS

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Across
  1. 3. The two-faced Roman god for whom January is named, as he symbolically looked backwards into the previous year and ahead into the future.
  2. 6. The great satirist Jonathan Swift made a resolution in 1669 to not become too fond of this.
  3. 7. Actress Gloria Jean resolved to study this as hard as music.
  4. 9. The woman this day is named for vowed in 46 B.C. to convince Julius Caesar to lengthen the calendar by one day every four years.
  5. 11. In 1995 Paul McCartney vowed to form a successful one of these.
  6. 12. Smokers and alcoholics often resolve to do this
Down
  1. 1. In the 1930s, Cambridge mathematician Godfrey Hardy made a resolution to murder this leader.
  2. 2. Dropping a hint that she wanted this led to Queen Elizabeth I getting this as a New Year’s gift every year.
  3. 4. The top resolution is usually to lose this.
  4. 5. and Peace In 1954 J.R.R. Tolkien vowed to write this as a New Year’s resolution (three words).
  5. 6. In 1972, Susan Sontag prayed for this as a New Year’s resolution.
  6. 8. Leonard Bernstein, a composer, resolved to stop doing this.
  7. 10. Deep Blue, the famous chess-playing IBM computer vowed to do 100 of this exercise by the end of the year and failed.