Puzzle 1

Celebrated biannual markers of changing seasons.

Courteousness, politeness.

Eponymous scented candle brand.

Geoffrey of __, early English historian.

Igor, Russian helicopter pioneer.

Original state capital of Georgia.

Picasso's muse, Surrealist painter, photographer.

Rendering a knife unsharp.

Rome's first Emperor.

Rotund, chubby paunch.

Segal and Bell Oahu flick, Forgetting Sarah __.

Stomping on grapes to crush them for winemaking.

Swamp spirit with frog-like eyes in Slavic legend.

The Y in DIY.

US state where Shenandoah National Park is found.

Upland defense structure of the Iron Age.

Video-game star Sonic is this animal.