| GOBBLERSKNOB | Pennsylvania setting of a Feb. 2 festival |
| ERIE | Pennsylvania setting of "That Thing You Do!" |
| SUGARISSWEETNSORU | End of a Feb. 14 refrain? |
| EST | PA setting |
| MYVALENTINEISTAWDRYSO | Start of a verse, on a Feb. 14 undertaking |
| CANDLEMAS | Church festival of Feb. 2 |
| SUPERBOWL | Event that could feature any of the athletes found in five squares in this puzzle ... and a Feb. 9, 2025, event featuring the athletes spelled out in the first letters of five Across entries and then |
| GROUNDHOG | Weather prophet of Feb. 2. |
| VAL | Apt name for a Feb. 14 baby? |
| KILL | "The Things You ___" (film nominated in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, which will be held Jan. 23-Feb. 2; entrants were announced yesterday) |
| GROUNDHOGDAY | 1993 film where a meteorologist relives Feb. 2 over and over again |
| SHAKIRA | Feb. 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia |
| CANDLEMASDAY | Christian observance celebrated on Feb 2 |
| NJ | This Garden State decriminalized pot in Feb;(2) |
| CAR | "Fast ___" (song that Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs sang together at the Grammys on Feb. 2) |
| CANTATA | A musical setting of a text, especially a religious text, consisting of arias, duets and choruses interspersed with recitatives |
| IMSONNENSCHEIN | The fourth of Vier Gesange by Richard Strauss, opus 87, a setting of a poem by Ruckert (2,12) |
| SCHUMANN | Composer of the Romantic era whose works include Papillons, Dichterliebe and a setting of a German t |
| TIMING | The setting of a mechanism or set of mechanisms so it operates at the right instant of time (6) |
| HEAVEN | Setting of a musical number at the end of "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" |
