Christmas (Leeper 2022)

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Across
  1. 4. last name of the Major General in White Christmas
  2. 6. Hebrew name that means "God with us"
  3. 7. Stars, needle, plate, dendrite, column, lacy, and capped column are the six main types of what?
  4. 8. country where KFC is the most popular Christmas meal
  5. 10. Christmas movie in which the song "White Christmas" was originally featured
  6. 11. In which author’s novel is it ‘always winter but never Christmas’?
  7. 13. title character of the highest grossing Christmas movie (a remake from 2018 overtaking Home Alone)
  8. 16. common shortening of "Christmas" that actually comes from the Greek spelling of "Christ"
  9. 17. viscum is another name for this Christmas plant
  10. 20. name the wise men are also called in some Bible translations
  11. 21. first song to be played in space (answer to last year's hint, "a Christmas song originally written for another holiday!)
  12. 23. emperor who ordered all the young children in Bethlehem be killed in hearing of Jesus's birth
Down
  1. 1. Christmas movie in which Tom Hanks plays 6 different roles
  2. 2. gospels Luke and _______ contain the story of Christ's birth
  3. 3. most recorded Christmas song of all time
  4. 5. Christmas sweet meant to resemble a shepherd's crook
  5. 9. aquatic name of the town in which Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas takes place
  6. 12. place where Jesus's family fled after His birth
  7. 14. last name of the bully in "A Christmas Story" (Scut _____)
  8. 15. hyphenated first name of the dancer who played Judy Haynes in White Christmas
  9. 17. country of origin of the Christmas flower Poinsettias
  10. 18. Christmas decoration that, while perhaps not originally, came to represent Christ's crown of thorns
  11. 19. the Grinch is "cuddly as a ______"
  12. 22. French word that, in Latin, originally means "Birth" - now associated with Christmas!