Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The imparting of news or promises etc
- 1 Across
- The season when the leaves fall from the trees
- 5 Across
- Parents, children and relatives who belong together
- 7 Across
- Any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing ___ (plural)
- 13 Across
- Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn
- 14 Across
- A seasoned mixture placed inside food before cooking.
- 15 Across
- The month following October and preceding December
- 2 Down
- Salty pink meat from a pig
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- The formal act of approving (plural)
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- To express gratitude or show appreciation to (plural)
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- Edible tuber of any of several ___ (plural)
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- Savory ___ for salads
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- A goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity
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- One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony (plural)
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- A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
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- People you like and enjoy spending time with
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