Across
- 3. Pumpkin Pie is by a wide margin NOT America’s favorite Thanksgiving pie. What is?
- 5. Most perilous method of turkey preparation
- 8. Filled with all the delicious fruits and vegetables that you collected during your harvest
- 11. Silly, funny or not cool
- 13. A state of sleep or extreme lethargy induced by the consumption of a large amount of food
- 14. First settlement in America
- 15. long-established
- 18. This Christmas song was originally a Thanksgiving song
- 19. Declared Thanksgiving as National Holiday in 1863
- 20. Length of first Thanksgiving
- 22. Contrary to popular belief, this food was not eaten at the first Thanksgiving
- 23. There weren’t any of these at the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Down
- 1. This dish originated as a hollowed out pumpkin shell with milk, honey and spices, baked in hot ashes
- 2. Resort to this if you encounter Thanksgiving protein indecision
- 4. According to a 2015 Harris Poll, Americans believe this is the best part of Thanksgiving
- 6. Brought the first settlers to the 'New World' in 1620
- 7. plentiful
- 9. Successful in material terms; flourishing financially
- 10. The full moon that is seen nearest to the time of the autumnal equinox
- 12. Only male turkeys do this
- 15. This was invented in 1953 as a result of a Swanson employee ordering too much turkey for Thanksgiving (260 tons too much)
- 16. This famous children’s show character’s costume is made of turkey feathers dyed yellow
- 17. The liver, heart, gizzard, and neck of a chicken or other fowl, usually removed before the bird is cooked, and often used to make gravy, stuffing, or soup
- 21. President Calvin Coolidge famously received this as a Thanksgiving gift