| SOLSTICE | Longest or shortest day of the year |
| WINTER | ___ solstice, the shortest day of the year |
| DECEMBER | Month when the winter solstice (or shortest day) occurs or one of the two months when the period of Advent can commence (8) |
| DEC | Mo. with the shortest day of the year |
| WINTERSOLSTICE | Shortest day of ice, snow litters everywhere (6,8) |
| SUSAN | First name of the author of The Dark Is Rising novels and the picture book The Shortest Day (5) |
| YOMKIPPUR | The holiest day of the year in Judaism, also called the Day of Atonement (3,6) |
| FIRST | New Year's Day is the - day of the year |
| ANALEMMAS | Scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe |
| HILARY | - of Poitiers; saint whose feast day falls on January 13, the coldest day of the year according to folklore (6) |
| PUB | Old saying: Norwich has a church for every week of the year and a ... for every day of the year (3) |
| EVE | New Year's ___; often spent celebrating, relaxing or considering resolutions, the last day of the year (3) |
| ANZACDAY | Rejected by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1960 as too controversial, Alan Seymour's play One Day of the Year (1958) is about which day? (5,3) |
| JUNE | Month with the longest day of the year |
| GEMINI | In Australia, what zodiac sign falls close to, but does not always contain, the shortest day of the |
| EQUINOX | Day of the year when night and day are of equal length (7) |
| HOGMANAY | Scots word for the last day of the year (8) |
| DAYOFATONEMENT | The holiest day of the year in Judaism (3,2,9) |
| ALMANAC | What is a calendar of the days of the year (7) |
| INAJIFFY | First day of the year coming up, full of uncertainty almost straightaway (2,1,5) |
