FAMILY XMAS PUZZLE 2025

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Across
  1. 5. “Meant to Live” band
  2. 8. a concept for a child acting troop, for some
  3. 9. An annual gift?
  4. 12. Transceivers developed for infantry in WWII
  5. 19. 38 season CBS hit
  6. 20. Cover band for many punk-ified Christmas songs
  7. 21. From the Algonquian for “stinky onion”
  8. 24. Baumbach, of “Frances Ha”
  9. 25. 20 year vagabond
  10. 30. fodder for santas sleigh
  11. 31. 1983 film starring Peter Billingsley
  12. 32. Pet compatible with MP3
  13. 33. Duet for a recital, from “Wicked”
  14. 35. Duo from the ether
  15. 39. Navy officers, in a dome, in Erie, PA
  16. 40. Junior, in Veggie Tales
  17. 41. Jacqueline du Pre, for one
  18. 43. A historic theater in upstate NY
  19. 44. Italian for “good, skilled, capable”
  20. 46. Large bipedal avian
  21. 47. Prefix of -retical
  22. 51. One of the Kennedy clan
  23. 53. Beware of drinking lake water after eating these
  24. 54. An entertainment unit, poorly built
  25. 55. With "the", Agatha Christie's 1952 play
  26. 58. Colloquialism for middle Pennsylvania
  27. 59. the first size out of the kids section, for bottoms
Down
  1. 1. Frightening, strange
  2. 2. Surname from a Mark Twain novel
  3. 3. “Some Like It Hot” (1959) star
  4. 4. His airness (surname)
  5. 6. Nintendo console released in 2001
  6. 7. A quintet of men, perhaps
  7. 10. a response to the dog throwing up, for some
  8. 11. We have a tournament champ in our midst
  9. 13. A dangerous venture, without a helmet
  10. 14. an annual rite, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are
  11. 15. Kelly, of Monaco
  12. 16. _____ Nevis
  13. 17. Viral Blue Grinch meme popularized in 2021-22
  14. 18. character in hiding
  15. 22. Found on a sundae?
  16. 23. Proprietor of the Stardrop Saloon, in popular game “Stawdew Valley”
  17. 25. Nemesis of Garfield
  18. 26. "You wish you were a ____"
  19. 27. “To _____ their own”
  20. 28. From the French “bottom of a bag”
  21. 29. Numbered precursor to Titus
  22. 34. geocaching, e.g.
  23. 36. Playing pretend, for some
  24. 37. Something rocked, with "the"
  25. 38. “The Professor and the Madman” (2019) screenwriter
  26. 42. They’re best when they're smoked
  27. 45. A squirrel, to some
  28. 48. Locale for many a CandyLand game
  29. 49. Japanese automobile introduced in 1994
  30. 50. A much sought-after vehicle
  31. 52. sweet treat, perhaps
  32. 56. Rogan, of “Freaks and Geeks”
  33. 57. Beach on the Atlantic coast, or, foolishness