Across
- 4. This major department store holds an annual parade in New York City.
- 5. The name of the plantation/colony that celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
- 8. This Charles Schulz comic character has made the most appearance of the department Thanksgiving Day parade.
- 9. Native Americans credited with being at the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.
- 10. This gender of turkey doesn't gobble.
- 12. This former president confused the nation, and football coaches, by moving the holiday to the third Thursday of November.
- 13. This former president marked Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
- 16. This sport traditionally holds games on Thanksgiving.
- 17. This Christmas song was originally intended for Thanksgiving.
- 19. This country is the origin of the word "turkey."
- 20. People consume between 3,000 and 4,000 of these at a typical Thanksgiving dinner.
Down
- 1. This amino acid found in turkeys doesn't actually make you sleepy.
- 2. This former president was the first to pardon a turkey.
- 3. Name of the ship on which the Pilgrims sailed to the new world.
- 6. This founding father wanted the turkey as the national symbol.
- 7. Historians have no record of this being eaten at the first (1620s)Thanksgiving
- 11. This is a symbol of a bounteous harvest.
- 14. Thanksgiving celebrates this type of autumn fesitval.
- 15. This author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is credited as the Mother of Thanksgiving because of her lobbying to make it a national holiday, in 1863.
- 18. Oldest Thanksgiving Day parade started with this store in 1920.