| WAITANGI | -- Day, national day of New Zealand (8) |
| ANZAC | ___ Day, national day of remembrance in Australia, New Zealand and Tonga (5) |
| TENNYSON | October 12, 1892, the day of this poet laureate's funeral, was a national day of mourning in England, because he was considered the leading poet of the Victorian era. |
| ANZACS | Abbreviated name of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps volunteers who fought in the Gallipoli Campaign, honoured in a national day of remembrance annually on April 25 (6) |
| MAY | So When the National Day of Prayer is celebrated |
| YWCA | National Day of Commitment to Eliminate Racism org. |
| BANKHOLIDAYS | Financial establishment takes vacation on national days of recreation |
| BASTILLEDAY | French national day celebrated on July 14 (8,3) |
| FRANCE | Country whose national day is known as Bastille Day in English-speaking countries (6) |
| POINSETTIAS | Plants with their own national day every December 12 |
| BANKHOLIDAY | National day off (4,7) |
| OREO | Cookie that has a national day on March 6 |
| BANK | ___ holiday, national day off |
| ENGLAND | Country whose national day is April 23 (7) |
| CHINA | It celebrates National Day on October 1 (and it's where the answers to starred clues were invented) |
| BRAEBURN | Sweet, slightly spicy variety of New Zealand eating apple; a hybrid of a Lady Hamilton and a Granny Smith (8) |
| HAWKEBAY | Section of the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand stretching from the Mahia Peninsula in the northeast to Cape Kidnappers |
| KAKABEAK | Flowering plant of New Zealand with spikes of red peapodshaped flowers (8) |
| ELEUSINE | Genus of crowfoot grass or Indian goosegrass, considered weeds in some parts of New Zealand (8) |
| RANGIORA | Evergreen shrub of New Zealand with small greenish-white flowers (8) |
