Across
- 1. outing or occasion that involves taking a packed meal to be eaten outdoors
- 5. the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring
- 8. a game played by two opposing teams of five or six people, usually on an indoor court
- 9. get up from lying, sitting, or kneeling; move from a lower position to a higher one; come or go up
- 10. hairy, often black and yellow, genus Bombus that nest in underground colonies
- 12. meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky
- 15. Jewish preacher and religious leader who became the central figure of Christianity; son of God
- 17. bulbous plant that typically bears bright yellow flowers with a long trumpet-shaped center
- 20. visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level
- 21. a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person
- 22. opposite of old
- 23. cold but fresh and enlivening
- 25. a rabbit, especially a young ones
- 26. tapering orange-colored root eaten as a vegetable
- 27. pleasantly windy
- 29. vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop
- 30. seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs typically surrounded by a brightly colored corolla and a green calyx
Down
- 2. round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red
- 3. larva of a butterfly or moth, having a segmented wormlike body with three pairs of true legs and several pairs of appendages similar to legs
- 4. immune response by the body to a substance, especially pollen, fur, a particular food, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive
- 6. plant having compound leaves with three small leaflets, especially a clover or wood sorrel; used as a national emblem of Ireland
- 7. happy and optimistic
- 11. making a low, continuous humming or murmuring sound; full of excitement or activity
- 13. game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases
- 14. a piece of ground used to grow vegetables, fruit, herbs, or flowers
- 16. small ovoid candy with a hardened sugar coating over a chewy center; bean-shaped sweet with a brightly colored coating around a gelatinous filling
- 18. a sweet food made with sugar or other sweeteners, typically formed in small, shaped pieces and flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts
- 19. flower of a seed plant
- 24. any of numerous flying insects of the order Lepidoptera that are active by day, characterized by clubbed antennae, a slender body, and broad, often conspicuously marked wings
- 25. warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak and (typically) by being able to fly
- 28. oval or round object laid by a female bird, reptile, fish, or invertebrate