Palindromic New Year is a term used to describe the rare occurrence of a year that reads the same forwards and backwards. The term is derived from the word palindrome, which is a word or phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards. In this crossword, the solution for the term Palindromic New Year is TET, which is the Hebrew word for the number nine. This is significant because when written numerically, 2021 reads the same forwards and backwards, making it a Palindromic New Year.