Across
- 1. The eight-day "festival of lights" celebrated by lighting candles, eating fried foods, playing games, and giving gifts.
- 3. A hollow structure allowing smoke from an indoor fireplace to vent outside.
- 5. A religious and cultural festival celebrated on December 25th
- 9. A grouchy spoilsport who doesn't enjoy Christmas
- 10. Magical, pointy-eared creatures who built toys for well-behaved children at the behest of Santa.
- 12. A british holiday celebrated the day after Christmas.
- 13. A steamed Christmas cake resembling a cannonball, filled with dried fruit.
- 15. A small, decorative sphere hung from a Christmas tree.
- 17. A pagan festival celebrating rebirth and renewal, held on the Winter Solstice.
- 18. A four-sided top used by children to play a gambling game during Hanukkah
- 19. The first day of winter and the ____ day of the year.
- 21. Cheerful and good-humored.
Down
- 2. A candle holder for the seven candles lit during kwanzaa.
- 4. A circular arrangement of greenery or flowers.
- 6. A festive song or hymn sung at Christmas
- 7. A cookie made with molasses and ginger.
- 8. Gloves with one opening for the thumb and another for the four fingers.
- 11. Pancakes made of grated potato, fried in oil and served during Hanukkah.
- 14. A region in Finland rumored to be where Santa Claus ____.
- 16. Navidad A spanish phrase meaning "Happy Christmas"
- 20. AN evergreen bush with red berries and prickly leaves used as a winter holiday decoration in pagan and Christian traditions.