TAG Teaser 234 - All About January

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Across
  1. 3. Martin Luther ____ Junior, the civil rights leader assassinated in 1968, whose birthday was January 15th, 1929, but whose day is celebrated on the third Monday of January (4)
  2. 4. _______ Festival, also called the "Shangyuan Festival" this marks the 16-ACROSS 13-DOWN Year, when children go out at night with paper torches called _______s (7)
  3. 6. Rabbie _____ Night falls on the 25th of January (5)
  4. 8. David _____, late singer and actor (also known as Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke) who - like 17-DOWN - was born on January 8th (in 1947) (5)
  5. 9. _______ Night, which falls on January 5th/6th, is also the name of a play by William Shakespeare (7)
  6. 11. This is how many days there are in January (6,3)
  7. 14. This striped horse, native to the savannahs of Africa, is celebrated on 31st January with International _____ Day (5)
  8. 16. _______ 13-DOWN Year, which is celebrated by people in the most populated country on Earth sometime between January 21st and February 20th (depending on the moon) (7)
Down
  1. 1. National ______ Fiction Day is held on 2nd January by fans of this genre of films and books, which features robots, space battles and ray guns! (6)
  2. 2. World _______ Day is held on 4th January, to mark the birthday of Louis _______, who invented a touch-based writing system for blind people like himself (7)
  3. 5. _________ Day, on January 26th, marks the first arrival of a British fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, and is the national day of the land "down under"! (9)
  4. 7. Winnie the ____, A.A. Milne's lovable, honey slurping bear, whose day is marked on 18th January (Milne's own birthday) (4)
  5. 8. The third Monday in January is known as ____ monday, as it is said to be the most depressing day of the year! (4)
  6. 10. This is eaten with neeps and tatties on 6-ACROSS Night! (6)
  7. 12. ___ Squirrel Day is celebrated on January 21st, to celebrate the squirrels that are native to the UK (3)
  8. 13. January the 1st is also known as ___ Year's Day (come on, this is an easy one!) (3)
  9. 15. International ____ Day, which is held on the 28th of January, marks the day when Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, a Danish inventor, patented the toy bricks that have given millions of kids hours of building pleasure! (4)
  10. 17. _____ Presley, the King of Rock, who was - like David 8-ACROSS - born on the 8th of January (but in 1935) (5)