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1. Grain store
5. Snatched
9. Curved fruit
10. Ocean surge, ... wave
11. Raise a glass to
12. Large building
13. Dashed
15. Of the nose
17. Stared lasciviously at
20. Olympic Games body (1,1,1)
21. Young society girl
23. Dependence on drugs
27. World-weary
30. Swerves
32. Wild marjoram
33. Stretch (neck)
34. Peruvian mammal
35. Dog, cocker ...
36. Award ribbon
37. Azure (3,4) 1. Stocking bands
2. Sharp-tasting
3. Strolled
4. Jerking
5. Non-Jewish person
6. Classic writer, Jane ...
7. Smashes
8. Makes (liquor)
14. Floor show host
16. Befuddle
17. Thrilled squeal
18. High tennis shot
19. Fleck
22. Pilot safety aid, ... seat
24. Par
25. Sloping letters
26. Prisoner on the loose
28. Draws up (legislation)
29. Fails to (5’1)
30. Salvo
31. Tooth material
18 Fun Facts about Summer:
1. Dog days of summer - the phrase ‘dog days of summer’ used
to refer to sweltering summer days has more to do with the
stars than dogs
2. It’s the most thundery time of the year - more thunderstorms
occur during the summer than at any other time of the year
9. The Equinox and Solstice marks the point when the sun
reaches its highest point in the sky. This is the longest day of
the year and after this point the days slowly begin to get shorter
until the winter solstice which occurs around 22 December
10. T
he word ‘Summer’ comes from the Old English name for the
season “sumor”
3. The frequency of a cricket’s chirps is consistent with air
temperature so you simply need to count how many chirps
11. T
he month of June was named after either Juniores, the lower
there are over 25 seconds then divide by 3 and add 4 to tell you
branch of the roman Senate, or Juno, the wife of Jupiter
the temperature in Celsius
12. M
arc Antony named the month of July, in honor of Julius
4. The coldest temperature ever recorded in summer in the UK is
Caesar.
-5.6 C recorded on the 9 June 1955 in Dalwhinnie and again on
13. S
cientists argue that summer babies ar e significantly more
the 1 and 3 June 1962 in Santon Downham in Norfolk
likely to suffer from mood swings than babies born in other
5. Did you know that on a hot day in Paris, the Eiffel Tower grows
seasons
taller? The tower is constructed from iron and when this is
14. S
tudies show that men are more likely to cheat during the
warmed it expands causing the structure to grow by up to
summer months
17cm
15. W
armer weather causes certain diseases to peak during the
6. The wettest UK summer was the summer of 1912, when
summer, such as Valley Fever, West Nile Lyme Disease, and
384mm of rain fell
food poisoning
7. This year the astronomical summer begins on 21 June. The
16. “September” is from the Latin word septem, meaning “seven.”
astronomical calendar determines the seasons due to the 23.5
degree tilt of the Earth’s axis in its orbit around the sun
17. J
uly, the hottest summer month in the Northern Hemisphere,
is National Ice Cream Month, not surprisingly
8. The highest temperature ever officially recorded in the UK is
38.5 degrees Celsius (101.3F) on August 10, 2003 at
18. T
he longest summer bikini parade on record happened on
Brogdale, Kent.
August 19, 2012, in China with 1,085 participants
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