Christmas

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Across
  1. 2. rhymes with a meal
  2. 4. alphabet goes from A to Z, but I go Z to A
  3. 5. this is called our national bird (7)
  4. 6. you bury me when I´m alive, and dig me up only when I die
  5. 8. a member of the large cat family with stripes (5)
Down
  1. 1. this huge creature lives in the polar region
  2. 3. I breathe fire, what am I?
  3. 7. knights only wear me