Plymouth and the 1621 Feast

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Burrowing shellfish available along the settlement's sandy shore (4)
• Season of the 1621 gathering, also called fall (6)
• The Atlantic, crossed by the settlers in 1620 (5)
• What the mutual defense alliance of 1621 aimed to preserve (5)
• Massachusetts town established by English Separatists in 1620 (8)
• Fish that gives the cape near the 1620 landing its name (3)
• Political status of the English settlement founded in Massachusetts in 1620 (6)
• Celebratory meal at the heart of the three-day gathering in 1621 (5)

Down

• Cultivated plants whose successful yield prompted the 1621 celebration (5)
• Formal diplomatic agreement made with Ousamequin in spring 1621 (6)
• European kingdom from which the 1620 transatlantic voyage departed (7)
• Snakelike fish Tisquantum taught the settlers to catch (3)
• Self-government agreement signed aboard the settlers' vessel in November 1620 (7)
• Landmark that became a symbol of the 1620 landing (4)
• Long-handled blade for loosening soil in the settlers' fields (3)

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