Jennii’s Whack Throwback Christmas Puzzle by Gena

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Across
  1. 2. Jeslie or Joan
  2. 5. How we feel about our crazy card exchange tradition.
  3. 7. Chestnuts or Phoenix in July.
  4. 8. UC Barbara or a generous fat, hairy white man.
  5. 10. King Cole
  6. 13. Pete Ellis Dodge 1095 W. El Camino Real
  7. 14. Mrs. Decena
  8. 19. The best mall for Christmas shopping and buying Hello Kitty stuff and Mrs. Fields cookies from.
  9. 22. Rocking New Year’s Eve.
  10. 24. The older of the Decena girls.
  11. 25. “An expensive way to break your leg,” is what my dad called this activity when we begged him to take us to do it.
  12. 26. Whatever he touches melts in his clutches.
  13. 27. Shoot your eye out.
Down
  1. 1. your father’s mother was so plastered she couldn’t move out of the way of this thing on Christmas Eve.
  2. 3. To the world, or what I feel when I find a Christmas card from you in my mailbox.
  3. 4. Disgusting baked good that appears at Christmas.
  4. 6. Name of the place in East SJ to buy a pumpkin or a Christmas tree or last name of a family in East SJ who sold pumpkins and trees.
  5. 9. When we should stop exchanging Christmas cards.
  6. 11. The white stuff that never came out of the sky for us at Christmas in SJ.
  7. 12. The reason for the season.
  8. 13. The year 2020 in one word.
  9. 15. The person I’m giving my heart to in order to save myself from tears.
  10. 16. Compression I wear on an airplane or a slender bag hung with great care to hold gifts.
  11. 17. Midnight
  12. 18. No one has ever had this flavor of pudding even though we threaten not to leave until we get some.
  13. 20. Gena’s favorite part of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is when this thing chews on the light cord and is electrocuted.
  14. 21. The best person to exchange Christmas cards with.
  15. 23. Keep in touch!