Spring Has Sprung

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Across
  1. 2. Sousa wrote many
  2. 4. Nickname for a child
  3. 5. A good friend
  4. 7. Officially opens
  5. 9. Fourth month
  6. 11. A special time for mom
  7. 13. Light rain
  8. 15. Fowl that arrive
  9. 16. Sweetness for pancakes
  10. 17. Melt
Down
  1. 1. Water repeller
  2. 3. Splash makers
  3. 4. First flower
  4. 6. More of this every 24 hrs
  5. 8. Not cooler but
  6. 10. First bird
  7. 11. Wet dirt
  8. 12. Coiled wire
  9. 14. Not dry