Across
- 4. Country where “Silent Night” originated
- 6. Voiced the Grinch in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” but most famous for playing Frankenstein’s monster
- 8. Plays Ernest P. Worrell in “Ernest Saves Christmas”
- 10. Material the first artificial Christmas trees were made of
- 14. Wintery last name of the poet who wrote “Christmas Tree”
- 15. Popular Christmas song written to be for Thanksgiving (also first song broadcast from space)
- 16. Cromwell banished this in England
- 21. Male co-star in “White Christmas”
- 22. KFC is the most popular Christmas meal in this country
- 23. Actor who played six rolls in “The Polar Express”
- 24. Country where “The Nutcracker Ballet” first premiered
- 25. Alternate title for “O Come, All Ye Faithul”
- 26. Christmas song written as a plea for peace during the Cuban missile crisis
- 28. The First Lady who wrote a Christmas Story
- 29. Decade Coca-Cola began using Santa Claus in ads
- 30. What Lucy wants for Christmas
Down
- 1. Highest grossing Christmas movie of all time
- 2. Cherished item Alvin gave to a sick boy for Christmas
- 3. Decade NORAD began tracking Santa on Christmas Eve
- 5. This state holds the Guinness record for largest snowman
- 7. Original name of the poem “The Night Before Christmas”
- 9. This former retail store commissioned, published, and gave out Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- 11. Country that started the tradition of putting up Christmas trees
- 12. This TV station runs “A Christmas Story” 48 hours straight over Christmas
- 13. Explains the meaning of Christmas to his friends
- 17. This Disney cartoon character has been a Christmas Eve staple in Sweden since 1959
- 18. Snowmans name in the song “Winter Wonderland”
- 19. Male co-star in “White Christmas”
- 20. Poinsettia’s native country
- 24. This actor who played this character in “A Christmas Story” was also in “Elf”
- 27. Bob Cratchet didn’t have this piece of winter clothing