November 2025 Clues:
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DOWN
1 - Part of the "drippings", found on meat too
2 - People do this on Friday morning 
3 - Give fan of Alice's Restaurant 
4 - Folks hope their football team will do this
6 - You can take these from a bottle
7 - The tribe of native Americans who met the pilgrims 
8 - Celery center-piece dish
10 - Bird of the hour
13 - Minimum number of servings for everyone at dinner
15 - You might have to do this before and after dinner, by plane, train, or automobile. 
17 - Old-fashioned outdoor group entertainment 
20 - Dietary option (abrv)
21 -Vegetable with a collar(d)
25 - Minimum of people needed for a gathering
28 - Table faux paus
29 - Dogs might beg for this
30 - The source of dark-berry jellied cylinders 
31 - You might take one of these after dinner

 
ACROSS
2 - Religious colonists' vessel
4 - Found roasted or in a pie
5 - Bringing up politics or religion (plural)
9 - The carb of choice, baked or smashed
11 - Pilgrims landed on this
12 - A traditional dessert option
13 - Children are "---" school during Thanksgiving
14 - Another traditional meat-based centerpiece (plural)
16 - Old-style fruit-based drink, served hot and cold
18 - Some folks watch this after and/or before dinner
19 - Savory topping of choice found on most tables
22 - You might need to do this over a long distance to see family 
24 - First president to make Thanksgiving a holiday (#18 if that helps!)
26 - Sulfurous satanic finger food is made from this common white ovoid
27 - Unit of corn (singular)
28 - With food or alcohol, this is can be a sport of choice on Thanksgiving 
29 - Another traditional pie option, made from the fruit of the hickory tree
32 - Unit of pie for distribution 
33 - 30, if you're from one of the Commonwealth countries
34 - Halloween holdover, now for dessert!