L&D Holiday Crossword

3. This restaurant is a popular tradition for Christmas dinner in Japan.
7. This occurs when a blizzard has enough energy to produce thunder and lightning.
8. This is the shortest day of the year.
10. This popular cookie has a bit of a bite and is used during the holidays to make houses.
13. This is a 5 day festival of lights.
15. Traditional foods for this day include black-eyed peas, collard greens, pork, and grapes.
18. This waterfall froze over completely in the winter of 1912.

1. This is the rate that the average snowflake falls (in mph).
2. Americans purchased an estimated 161 million pounds of this baking and cooking ingredient between mid-November and Christmas in 2021.
4. This is the highest-grossing animated musical fill of all time and 9th highest grossing film of all time with a worldwide box office gross of $1.097 billion.
5. The largest one ever built was 113 feet.
6. This song was originally written for Thanksgiving, but became a Christmas classic.
9. The number of sides every snowflake has.
11. This celebration focuses on the values of umoja (unity), kukichagulia (self-determination), ujima (collective work and responsibility), nia (purpose), kuumba (creativity), and imani (faith(.
12. The volcanic eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora in April 1815 created a year without this season in the Northern Hemisphere.
14. This festival of lights lasts 8 nights.
16. This acronym is used to describe a type of depression that occurs during the fall and winter months.
17. Chionophobia is the persistent fear of this.