Across
- 3. Latin name Cucurbita, surprisingly a fruit
- 6. A popular spice, coming from the bark of a tree native to Sri Lanka
- 8. Breaks down to turn leaves orange
- 10. Autumn ......., happened on the 23rd of September
- 13. What do the flags of Canada, Cyprus and Mexico have in common?
- 15. A drink, thought to have originated in Ecuador
- 17. A hand-held firework
- 20. This festival is sometimes celebrated with sweet potato and marshmallow as one of the dishes
- 21. Can be used for waste disposal, or celebration
Down
- 1. 20% of Brits have this as their favourite season
- 2. Also known as Guido when fighting for the Spanish, part of a plan that went wrong in 1605
- 4. Often worn when trick-or-treating
- 5. Traditional German clothing, worn at a famous autumn festival
- 7. The name for a baby hedgehog
- 9. Bears, bats, frogs and moths all enter this in autumn
- 11. Sky...., a film starring Ralph Fiennes, Judi Dench and Daniel Craig
- 12. These nuts make up around 25% of deer around this time of year, buried by squirrels
- 14. Gerund, the act of getting an apple out of water with your mouth
- 16. From the old English "hoerfest", celebrated around the autumn equinox
- 17. German for "stone", used to serve beer in Oktoberfest
- 18. This London-born romantic poet wrote "To Autumn" in 1819, John .....
- 19. First recorded in 1848 on the Isle of Wight; you need some string and a gimlet to play this game