Across
- 4. Year-round foliage
- 7. Variety of life
- 9. Forest’s upper layer
- 10. Egg-shaped
- 12. Naturally decomposing
- 14. Storm cloud
- 15. Relating to Easter
- 22. Materials reused
- 23. Transformational change
- 26. Egg-laying
- 28. Heat-trapping effect
- 29. Easter event
- 31. Pre-Easter season
- 35. Symbol of spring
- 36. Resource protection
- 37. Environmentally viable
- 39. Interacting life system
- 40. Water-conducting tissue
- 41. Spring metaphor
Down
- 1. Seasonally shedding
- 2. Month from Latin “to open”
- 3. Equal day/night
- 4. Seasonal balance
- 5. Easy prank target
- 6. Flowering stage
- 8. Soil around roots
- 11. Young tree
- 13. Human-shaped epoch
- 16. Comic imitation
- 17. Pagan spring deity
- 18. Medieval prankster
- 19. Seasonal timing study
- 20. Nutrient-carrying tissue
- 21. Intentional deception
- 24. Tree-planting holiday
- 25. Egg-dyeing process
- 27. Soft spring hues
- 30. Humorous imitation
- 32. Three holy days
- 33. High-altitude wind
- 34. Study of trees
- 38. Humor with bite