Vocabulary.com Thanksgiving Day Crossword Puzzle and Exercises

Vocabulary University® Thanksgiving Holiday Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle.

Clues to the 18 words Thanksgiving Holiday Crossword:
(Puzzles answers are at the very bottom of this page.)

4 - one of the band of Puritans who journeyed
6 - seasoned bread or fillings inside poultry
8 - act of watching attentively
9 - internal organs of a fowl
11 - a horn stuffed with foods, berries etc.
15 - synonym for corn; pale yellow
16 - group of people who form in a new land
17 - name of ship that sailed to the New World (1620)
DOWN:
1 - a sauce for salads etc.
2 - special activities that commemorate
3 - valued praise, favor or benefit
5 - unusually abundant meal
7 - distinct cry of the male turkey
10 - term also meaning Native American
12 - small, sour and dark red berry
13 - season when crops are collected
14 - one of oldest towns in SE Massachusetts
18 - American harvest holiday in late November

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