Across
- 5. Arizona and which other state have towns called Christmas?
- 6. In which country does Santa have his own personal postcode HOH OHO?
- 9. Who popularised the Christmas tree in the Victorian era?
- 10. NYE in Scotland?
- 12. To make brandy you distil...?
- 14. Eating what each day of the twelve days of Christmas brings happiness the following year?
- 15. What liqueur goes into making a 'Snowball' cocktail?
- 18. What was Brenda Lee doing around the Christmas tree in 1958?
- 20. In Victorian England what people were termed Robins due to their red uniform?
- 22. In Mexico wearing what colour underwear on NYE means you will find love the following year?
- 24. Francis Showering invented which drink?
- 25. Marzipan is made mainly from sugar and the flour or meal of which nut?
- 26. Which British monarch introduced the tradition of giving thousands of Xmas puddings to staff?
- 28. What animal is Snowball in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm?
- 29. Genus ilex
Down
- 1. The first charity to produce a Christmas card
- 2. How many swans are swimming?
- 3. Which country traditionally gives London's Trafalgar square Christmas tree?
- 4. White marking on a horses lower leg?
- 7. Christmas is a territory belonging to which country?
- 8. Oliver ... Puritan scrooge whose parliament banned Christmas in 1647
- 11. In 2004 which country gave away 20 million scented stickers to make Christmas cards smell like fir tress, cinammon, gingerbread or honey-wax?
- 13. The original colour of Santa's suit
- 16. Driving home for Christmas was a 1988 hit for which singer?
- 17. Before stockings what did Dutch children hang by the fire?
- 19. Pine needles are a good source of which vitamin? (supposedly)
- 21. From what does the month December take its name?
- 23. The making and selling of what gives us the surname Chandler?
- 27. Dr Seuss wrote the book "How the ... stole Christmas" but what's the missing word?