12 Days of Christmas

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Across
  1. 3. On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… this symbolic bird.
  2. 6. In Twelfth Night celebrations, a Lord of Misrule is someone chosen by chance to be ______ for a day.
  3. 8. On the eighth day, these performers came a-milking.
  4. 9. On the sixth day, these animals began laying.
  5. 11. This celebration marks the final night of Christmas and traditionally includes feasting, music, and a little holy mischief.
  6. 12. Matthew 23:37-39 and Luke 13:34-35; Trinity style
Down
  1. 1. According to the Church calendar, Christmas doesn’t end on December 25—it lasts this many days.
  2. 2. This baked treat was often shared on Twelfth Night, sometimes hiding a bean or coin to choose the evening’s “royalty.”
  3. 4. The season that follows the twelve days of Christmas.
  4. 5. On the fifth day of Christmas, this gift finally becomes loud and impossible to ignore.
  5. 7. These travelers arrive not on Christmas Day, but at the end of the twelve days—guided by a star.
  6. 10. The 10 Lords did this.