Across
- 3. Holiday “log” that’s more cake than firewood
- 5. Baking’s most reliable co-conspirators
- 7. Gloves with fewer individual opinions
- 8. Snowman with an unusually optimistic outlook
- 9. A song or a person, depending on context
- 11. Seasonal drink people swear they like every year
- 12. A funny holiday classic
- 13. Instrument with 88 keys but no locks
- 15. Sport whose abbreviation sends you to the wrong place if you pack a suitcase
- 16. Tree jewelry with a short life expectancy
- 20. Seasonal word that looks like it could RSVP
- 23. Festive greenery that fights back
- 24. Door décor shaped like a festive zero
- 25. Furniture for meals, homework, and treaty negotiations
- 26. Where “spin” means exercise, not PR
- 28. Entryway chaos manager that works one sole at a time
Down
- 1. Santa’s ride: not a car, definitely a flex
- 2. Sleeping arrangement that appears only when company does
- 4. Weather you can control by shaking
- 6. Plant that turns standing still into a social contract
- 9. Hook-shaped sugar with minty ambition
- 10. Winter accessory that doubles as portable warmth
- 14. A ballet or a tool, based on your December plans
- 17. Reindeer whose medical condition became a career advantage
- 18. Holiday sparkle with a tendency to shed
- 19. Decorative rope with no practical knots
- 21. Wall-mounted helpers that always catch what you throw
- 22. Board-game headquarters and graveyard for missing pieces
- 27. The socially accepted reason people function before noon