Across
- 3. "Home Alone" hero
- 8. potato pancake
- 9. Kwanzaa candelabra
- 10. NYC's Rockefeller ___
- 11. Winter neckwear
- 13. New Years Eve quaff, in slang
- 14. North Pole staffers
- 16. Helms’ hit
- 18. Shortest day of the year
- 20. ___-ski
- 22. Snow vehicle
- 24. Hannukah reward
- 26. Seventh reindeer
- 27. Sheet of floating ice
- 28. Ninth menorah candle
- 30. "The Grinch" director ___ Howard
- 32. Latin ten
- 33. December drink
- 34. In the holiday spirit
- 35. Gift
- 37. Eggnog sprinkling
- 39. THE snowman
- 40. December 26th
Down
- 1. December birthstone
- 2. Winter weather factor
- 4. Hawaiian Santa
- 5. December 24 and December 31
- 6. 2013 disyllabic Disney movie
- 7. Days of Christmas
- 12. Christmas tree, often
- 15. Four-sided top
- 16. Law of "The Holiday"
- 17. Sources of winter strains
- 19. Winter hours in NYC
- 21. Dickens’ miser
- 23. Jon Favreau holiday film
- 25. December sound
- 28. Burton’s Christmastown pumpkin king
- 29. Snow-capped Italian peak
- 31. Witherspoon of “Four Christmases”
- 36. “It’s freezing out here!”
- 38. Singer Carey