Featured clue | 30-across: Santa Claus’s leporid, warmer-weather equivalent
Factoid | 28-across: The American Civil War lasted from April 12, 1861 to May 9, 1865. It began with the South’s attack on Fort Sumter and ended when President Johnson officially declared the insurrection finished five days after the last Confederate troops surrendered. The Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, was captured the following day.