| STORIED | Celebrated in history |
| LGBT | Community celebrated in June, in brief |
| WON | *Their history is celebrated in March |
| FAMILYDAY | Holiday from work that's celebrated in much of Canada in February: 2 wds. |
| MOON | Which river is celebrated in song in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's? (4) |
| LOCHLOMOND | Celebrated in a folk song and forming part of the region that contains the Great Trossachs Forest, the largest freshwater lake in Scotland by surface area (4,6) |
| REEBOK | Sportswear company whose shoes were worn by Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell in the 1924 Olympics, later celebrated in the film Chariots of Fire (6) |
| ERICLIDDELL | British athlete whose win in the 1924 Olympics was celebrated in Chariots of Fire (4,7) |
| BLAYDONONTYNE | Town in north-east England celebrated in song for its races (7-2-4) |
| ALFRED | King of Wessex celebrated in a folly on the Stourhead estate in Wiltshire (6) |
| DECEMBER | Month in which Rosa Parks Day is celebrated in Ohio (8) |
| TORERO | Celebrated in Ring with the red cape and in Ballitore romance (6) |
| OAKAPPLEDAY | Holiday celebrated in England on 29 May to commemorate the restoration of the English monarchy in May 1660 |
| CUCKOO | With zygodactyl feet, bird more often heard than spotted whose song, considered a herald of spring, is celebrated in the 800-year-old English rota Sumer is icumen in (6) |
| OCTOBER | Columbus Day in the U.S. is celebrated in this month (7) |
| ENGEDI | Biblical place in the wilderness of Judah, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, whose vineyards were celebrated in Solomon's time |
| MARDIGRAS | Festival first celebrated in the US in Mobile, Alabama |
| DDAY | Decisive event celebrated in this puzzle |
| WAYNE | Film star celebrated in this puzzle |
| TET | Holiday celebrated in Little Saigon |