Spring into NEST

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Across
  1. 2. Battle of Puebla Holiday
  2. 3. Most seasonally appropriate gym
  3. 6. It comes in like a lion
  4. 8. Least academic week of the season
  5. 9. ____ forward, fall back
  6. 12. This holiday is needs its "order"
  7. 14. Dutch contribution to spring
  8. 15. Edison didn't invent this garden variety
  9. 17. First day of spring
  10. 20. April Showers bring them
  11. 21. Lá Fhéile Pádraig
  12. 22. Barbar bought a suit in a becoming shade of this hue
  13. 23. ___ is the cruelest month, per Eliot
Down
  1. 1. Eating six seeds in a Pomegranate made her the Goddess of the season
  2. 3. We'll celebrate it for the 55th time this year
  3. 4. You can find people with this sign running in Pamplona
  4. 5. This tearjerker Disney film celebrates Spring
  5. 7. Florida Ball
  6. 10. There are more of these sakura in Newark than D.C.
  7. 11. Happy New Year in Tehran
  8. 13. Ewe might be born under its sign
  9. 16. Celebrates the love of Radha and Krishna
  10. 18. Rutherford B. Hayes was to first to celebrate this holiday on the White House Lawn
  11. 19. They don't really look like lion's teeth