Across
- 1. Cone-shaped accessory
- 3. Evidence of a good time
- 5. Audible sign of change
- 8. Night before
- 10. Precedes “Happy New Year!”
- 11. Brief speech, briefly
- 14. Barroom truth-tellers, often
- 17. Conceptual reset
- 19. New leaf, perhaps
- 20. January vow, often broken
- 21. Watched intensely at 11:59
- 23. Ring in the new year, perhaps
- 26. Televised tradition since 1907
- 27. Pop culture staple?
- 30. Time-defining moment
- 31. Traditional midnight gesture
- 33. Year-in-review material
- 34. Button for reflection
- 36. Common New Year’s aim
- 38. Ten-year span
- 40. Start-over spirit
- 43. Zero hour
- 44. January first reality
- 46. Loud punctuation for the calendar
- 47. Where the year ends
- 48. Scottish greeting
Down
- 2. Look back
- 4. It keeps running, regardless
- 6. Moment of reflection
- 7. Reason midnight comes early (or late)
- 9. It passes quickly
- 12. “Auld Lang Syne,” e.g.
- 13. Message to the future
- 14. What clocks do next
- 15. A named era
- 16. Often made, easily broken
- 18. Sound of anticipation
- 22. Fresh start, metaphorically
- 24. God with a backward glance
- 25. End-of-year pressure
- 28. Morning after scene
- 29. Writer’s year in review?
- 32. What the new year offers
- 33. Scottish celebration
- 35. Small but bright celebrant
- 37. Famous countdown locale
- 39. Planner’s necessity
- 41. Notable moment in time
- 42. Look ahead
- 45. End-of-year feature