Across
- 2. Earthquakes in this US territory further crippled an island still dealing with hurricane damage from 2017
- 6. Reports of this North Korean dictator’s demise in April were greatly exaggerated.
- 8. First arriving in May, these visitors from Japan were big in the Pacific Northwest and can destroy honeybee colonies quickly
- 9. A blue star located in this galaxy has vanished without the expected supernova explosion, stumping scientists
- 10. This seemingly random storm tore across Nebraska and Iowa with little warning of its severity. Cedar Rapids remains devastated by its effects
- 14. This Australian airline broke its records with the fastest-selling tickets in the company’s history for a ‘flight to nowhere.’
- 15. Specifically for the wildfires in California, this rare phenomenon occurred terrifying everyone and coming in second as nightmare fuel only to its brother the Sharknado
- 16. Starting in Australia and occurring intensely in the western US, this annual occurrence was also notably more intense than usual this year
- 19. This major US military headquarters released images of an actual UFO – and this still wasn’t enough to make the major headlines.
- 20. The saying used to go “<diety> willing,” now is often replaced with this truncated virus name
Down
- 1. With the implementation of the lockdown, we found nature returning to the cities. Though the internet told a number of tales, these animals were on video in the town square of a major Thai city, upset that there were no tourists to feed them.
- 3. A massive explosion in this Lebanese city shocked the world when it endured a blast which could cost $10-15 billion to repair
- 4. Civil Unrest across the United States occurred after this government division murdered unarmed black American citizens
- 5. Prank, artistic statement, or messages from our alien overlords? These started showing up in the waning months of 2020 and disappeared just as mysteriously.
- 7. This exotic Netflix show became an overnight sensation as people entered lockdown and were desperate enough to watch anything.
- 11. These giant storms from the south had a particularly busy year this year. Also, a tasty mixed beverage
- 12. This common substance on Earth was found somewhere astonishing…. The Moon.
- 13. The Summer Olympic games, which were to be held in this city, were cancelled due to Coronavirus concerns. The last time the games were cancelled/postponed was in 1944 due to WW2.
- 17. China stood by to aid Pakistan with the plague of locusts by offering to send 100,000 of these animals to eat the insects
- 18. This ongoing disaster really started off the year of horror, after previously devastating a hundred years prior