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Trivia about autumn

  • It leaves when winter comes (6)
  • Early in H&G history, a regular feature was this season's planting number, as seen here
  • Keats' "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness", it's when most adult crickets die
  • The National Weather Service says some Gulf Coast areas get a second peak tornado period, in this season
  • It usually begins around September 22nd
  • 'Tis this season (of the year)
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a pineapple plantation.)The pineapple shoots that grow from the mother plants after the main harvest are called the ratoon crop--also the Hawaiian term for a baby born to late-in-life parents, the word is thought to be from the Latin for this season
  • "___ Sonata"