Happy Holidays

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Across
  1. 2. US city that banned Christmas 1659-1681
  2. 3. 8 day Festival of Lights
  3. 4. Reason Mary and Joseph were traveling so late in pregnancy
  4. 5. Spinning top
  5. 10. He’ll go down in history
  6. 11. Holiday invented in 1966 in USA
  7. 12. Tree sap resin, wise gift
  8. 14. author of a Christmas Carol
  9. 15. patron saint of Christmas
Down
  1. 1. Plant named after American Minister to Mexico
  2. 6. Number of reindeer in ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
  3. 7. 1st consumed in US in 1607 in Jamestown
  4. 8. number of ghosts that appear to Scrooge
  5. 9. practice of going from house to house singing and drinking
  6. 13. Delicious treat and wood burned in hearth