Veterans/Thanksgiving Day Crossword (November 2022)

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  1. 3. While often thought of as more of a Halloween item, this gourd is a common Thanksgiving pie filling.
  2. 5. Colony where Pilgrims intended to land in the New World.
  3. 7. Name of vessel that carried the pilgrims to the New World.
  4. 10. Common decoration found on Thanksgiving dinner tables.
  5. 13. Organization traditionally tasked with decorating veterans' tombstones with American flags.
  6. 14. From 1971 through 1977, Veterans Day was celebrated on the fourth Monday in this month.
  7. 15. Event that occurred on November 11, 1918, leading to the federal Veterans Day holiday; was also name used for holiday until 1954.
  8. 17. ____________ Day is the alternative term used in much of the world instead of Veterans' Day.
  9. 18. Department store responsible for America's largest Thanksgiving Parade, held each year in New York City.
  10. 20. Most common symbol of Thanksgiving.
  11. 21. Service flags displayed in military personnel families' windows will have this color of star representing somebody serving in the military.
  12. 23. Place where most pilgrims left before coming to the New World after leaving England.
  13. 24. Native American tribe connected with first Thanksgiving celebrated in Plymouth in 1621.
  14. 26. NFL team that has played the most games on Thanksgiving Day.
  15. 27. A more recent tradition, taking off during the 1991 Gulf War, treats this color of ribbon as a symbol of America's fidelity to those in harm's way far from home.
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  1. 1. Thanksgiving Day is the single most popular date for this athletic activity.
  2. 2. Most of the pilgrim at the first Thanksgiving were these sort of English dissenters, not to be confused with the Puritans.
  3. 4. U.S. President responsible for making Thanksgiving Day a federal holiday.
  4. 6. Location where Pilgrims actually arrived in the New World.
  5. 8. U.S. President signed law making Veterans Day a national holiday.
  6. 9. Service flags displayed in military personnel's families' windows will have this color of star representing somebody who died serving in the military.
  7. 11. Virginia location of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
  8. 12. Thanksgiving was celebrated as an alternative to this holiday in the New England colonies.
  9. 16. Fruit often served on Thanksgiving today in a gel-like form, this fruit is cultivated in beds constructed in wetlands and soaks in bogs.
  10. 19. Holiday often confused or conflated with Veterans Day.
  11. 22. Recently adopted practice by U.S. Presidents to offer this to live turkeys presented to them as gifts for Thanksgiving.
  12. 25. Official flower of the American Legion, made famous by John McCrae poem "In Flanders Field", though more commonly seen in other English-speaking countries.