NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS

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