Across
- 2. An excuse to keep your date hanging around a while longer.
- 3. A menace to Rudolph and Yukon Cornelius.
- 7. nicknames of Kevin's would-be tormentors.
- 9. Scrooge's complaint.
- 11. One hopes that Santa will not fall into this source of Christmas-time heat and ambience.
- 12. A red and green plant.
- 13. This makes Kevin scream.
- 16. This reindeer shares his or her name with an astronomical phenomenon.
- 17. It's time to don this.
- 18. Yuletide building material.
- 19. This old-timey word for Christmas appears in a traditional holiday song.
Down
- 1. Mary and Joseph could find no space for them here.
- 4. She had a chart-topping Christmas hit.
- 5. Your mom prefers these in already-cracked form.
- 6. One possible choice to top the tree.
- 8. This treat is shaped like something a shepherd would carry, and is best enjoyed in blue-raspberry flavor.
- 10. The Grinch carves one.
- 13. This word means "arrival." We associate it with goodies.
- 14. This elf wants to be a dentist.
- 15. He wrote *A Christmas Carol.*