| OUTBREAK | Public holiday causes epidemic |
| VACILLATION | Trouble during holiday causes indecision |
| PESTILENTIAL | Adjective, tending to cause epidemic (12) |
| BIRTHDAY | See 17A. Public holiday in June (5'1,8) |
| MATARIKI | Our new public holiday (8) |
| MEMORIAL | ____ Day, U.S. public holiday on the last Monday in May for honouring military personnel (8) |
| OAKAPPLE | ___ Day, former public holiday on May 29 in Britain commemorating the Restoration in 1660 (3,5) |
| ANZACDAY | Public holiday on April 25 in Australia and New Zealand (5,3) |
| LABORDAY | Public holiday in the U.S. and Canada on the first Monday in September (5,3) |
| DIADELES | Public holiday in the Balearic Islands held on March 1st to commemorate the signing in 1983 of the region's Statute of Autonomy, local spelling (3,2,3,5,7) |
| RESTDAYS | Sundays or public holidays (4,4) |
| QUEENS | Public holiday in June (5'1,8) |
| BASTILLEDAY | French public holiday (8,3) |
| WAITANGIDAY | Celebration which became a public holiday in 1974 (8,3) |
| EASTER | Public holiday, ___ Monday |
| EASTERMONDAY | UK public holiday |
| NEWYEARSDAY | Public holiday (3,5,3) |
| BOXINGDAY | A public holiday following Christmas (6,3) |
| MAYDAY | Festival of spring public holiday (6) |
| ANZAC | --- Day, April public holiday (5) |
