Across
- 4. What Iceland’s Yule Cat eats people for not receiving.
- 7. Festive spiced cookie often shaped like a person.
- 12. A horned creature who scares naughty Austrian children.
- 15. Dutch holiday figure who arrives by boat.
- 16. A winter ornament filled with water and glitter.
- 19. Jewish festival celebrated with candles and gifts.
- 20. Traditional Filipino giant lantern festival.
- 21. Feast held during Kwanzaa.
- 23. Long German Christmas cake filled with fruit and nuts.
- 24. Where families hang stockings — often too close to the heat.
- 25. Humorous holiday invented on Seinfeld (“for the rest of us”).
- 26. The dramatic nickname the burglars give themselves in Home Alone.
- 27. A wooden holiday dessert that doesn’t taste good but burns nicely.
- 28. Hung by the chimney but usually filled with chocolate.
Down
- 1. Fried potato pancakes eaten during Hanukkah.
- 2. Ballet character who cracks nuts and terrifies some children.
- 3. Going door-to-door singing loudly and off-key.
- 5. Traditional winter decoration made of straw in Nordic countries.
- 6. Spanish lottery tradition with massive Christmas prizes.
- 8. Shiny decoration that gets everywhere and never disappears.
- 9. Vehicle that Santa is definitely not insured to drive.
- 10. Italian Christmas witch who delivers sweets to good children.
- 11. Shiny object you hang on trees until it falls and breaks.
- 13. New Year celebration with fireworks in China.
- 14. Slavic winter carol-singing tradition.
- 17. Word printed on the Polar Express sleigh bell.
- 18. A rich dessert traditionally set on fire in the UK.
- 22. Plant hung over doorways where people traditionally kiss.
- 29. Japanese Christmas tradition involving a fried-chicken meal.