Thanksgiving Day

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The month following October and preceding December (8)
  2. 4. Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving (6)
  3. 5. A Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic (7)
  4. 7. A town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620 (8)
  5. 10. One of the British colonies that formed the United States (13)
  6. 11. Low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant (9)
  7. 12. A small cosmetics case with a mirror (7)
  8. 14. Fourth Thursday in November in the United States (12)

Down

  1. 1. Gathering crops when they are ripe (7)
  2. 2. A region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and ___ Hampshire and Vermont (10)
  3. 6. Someone who journeys in foreign lands (7)
  4. 7. A formal public statement (12)
  5. 8. Wampanoag leader who aided the Pilgrims (9)
  6. 9. A member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an ___ language and originally (10)
  7. 13. 16th President of the United States (7)