Gray - 2025

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Across
  1. 1. A quiet building where you can borrow The Polar Express or other winter stories for free.
  2. 5. This festive red-and-green plant is actually a shrub native to Mexico.
  3. 8. I have two arms but no hands, and I can run but have no legs. I help you count down to Christmas morning.
  4. 9. This New Orleans landmark is famous for chicory coffee and beignets that look like they're covered in snow.
  5. 12. In this Sue Grafton "Alphabet" mystery, Kinsey Millhone deals with a frame-up during the Christmas season.
Down
  1. 2. The traditional name for a Yule Log cake, often decorated with meringue "mushrooms."
  2. 3. A "sweet" house made of brown cookies, frosting, and gumdrops.
  3. 4. You hang this on the fireplace and hope it’s filled with candy.
  4. 6. A colorful ball or star you hang on a branch of the Christmas tree.
  5. 7. These frozen spikes of ice hang from the roof like glass carrots.
  6. 10. I go "Choo-Choo!" on tracks around the bottom of the tree.
  7. 11. A cold, white friend you build in the snow with a carrot nose.