Christmas

2. Coming or arrival, measured by a four-candle wreath
4. Traditional festive song sung by doorstep visitors
6. News or glad messages brought by holiday carolers
8. Feeding trough repurposed as a makeshift cradle
9. Miserly protagonist of Dickens's 1843 novella who hates the holidays
10. Traditional comfits made of sugar-coated seeds or nuts that danced in young heads
12. Parasitic plant hung in doorways for a holiday kiss
14. Word heard after "Feliz" in a classic Jose Feliciano hit
16. Knit sock hung above the mantelpiece for small treats
17. Masonry flue serving as an unconventional point of entry
19. Folk legend who voiced Sam the Snowman in 1964 and immortalized "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (surname)

1. Traditional name for the midwinter holiday season
3. Circular arrangement of pine branches hung on the front door
5. Crooner whose 1942 rendition of "White Christmas" became the best-selling single of all time (surname)
7. Ancient Judean city cited as the birthplace of Jesus
11. day, Post-holiday public holiday celebrated in Britain and the Commonwealth
13. Tableau or artistic depiction of the Holy Family in the manger
15. Solitary bird perched in a pear tree on the first day
18. famous two-act classical ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1892