Midwinter Christmas Trivia Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. July birthstone
  2. 5. Winners of 2023 Super Rugby
  3. 6. "Composer of The Four Seasons"
  4. 7. Freshly fallen snow
  5. 8. The name of the snowman in Frozen
  6. 9. "It's raining _____" by The Weather Girls
  7. 11. Star associated with food harvested from the ground
  8. 12. Not even a _______ was stirring on the night before Christmas
  9. 14. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won NZ's first ever Winter Olympics gold medal in this snowboarding discipline
  10. 16. Dangerously low body temperature
  11. 18. The coldest, but thankfully not the wettest month in Whanganui-Manawatu
  12. 19. July 14th
  13. 20. NZ's coldest town
  14. 21. Liquidated ski field
  15. 22. What type of animal is Sid in the movie Ice Age?
  16. 25. Frozen water
  17. 26. Sport where stones are slid along ice
  18. 27. Where Santa lives
  19. 28. Current zodiac sign
  20. 29. An older name for July
  21. 30. Atua of the weather
  22. 31. Writer of the play "A Winter's Tale"
Down
  1. 1. Hine _________, the Winter Maid - one of the two wives of Tamanuiterā
  2. 2. Samuel __________ led the first Christmas service in NZ, in 1814
  3. 4. One of the reindeer
  4. 5. An intense fear of snow
  5. 10. The birthplace of St Nicholas, and a traditional Christmas/Thanksgiving meat
  6. 13. Festive alcoholic drink
  7. 15. Sunniest region in New Zealand over past two years
  8. 17. The Stark's ancestral family home
  9. 18. Aomori, a city in ________, has the highest annual snowfall
  10. 22. June 22nd
  11. 23. Birthday of Sylvester Stallone, the Dalai Lama, George W. Bush and Frida Kahlo
  12. 24. To sleep all winter