| BDAY | As per #16-Across... Happy _-___ February 29th celebrants! |
| JANEDOE | As per 16 Across... Anonymous name of Jaimie Alexander's tattooed character: 2 wds. |
| ASA | As happy ___ ___ clam |
| NEWYEAR | 1980 ABBA song to mark 1 January, Happy _ _ (3,4) |
| ASCAN | Happy ___ ___ be (Delighted) |
| LEAPDAY | February 29th song about each police department (4,3) |
| LEAPYEAR | Period in which February 29th occurs (4,4) |
| LEAP | ___ year (year with February 29th) |
| DAY | Groundhog ___; February 2 |
| PM | 10:00 ___, February 28, PST: when Rob's mini-residency concludes and Brooke exits crisis-PR mode |
| GRAS | Mardi ___ (February or March celebration) |
| MICHAELMASDAISY | As D-I-Y is wrong after 29th September, find aster is wild (10,5) |
| GAMES | January 29th to February 4th, 2023: Arctic Winter ___ (They take place in Wood Buffalo, Alberta) |
| END | The 29th, for February 2020 |
| WIMWENDERS | 80-year-old German director who will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the German Film Academy on May 29th, as announced this week |
| PESCE | He played his own brother in "29th Street" |
| INVESTORSGROUP | Sunday, November 29th, 2015... Winnipeg setting of this weekend's Grey cup championship, ___ ___ Fie |
| USSIOWA | WWII Navy vessel named for the 29th state |
| WESTMINSTER | April 29th, 2011: Abbey where Prince William married Kate |
| BRONWYNBISHOP | 29th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives (7,6) |
