Merry Christmas
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- FAMILY
- FELIZ NAVIDAD
- FIREPLACE
- FRIENDS
- GIVING
- GREETINGS
- HAPPINESS
- HOLIDAYS
- HOT COCOA
- JESUS
- JOY
- LIGHTS
- LOVE
- MEMORIES
- MISTLETOE
- SANTA CLAUS
- SNOW
- TIME
- WINTER
- YULETIDE
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Christmas gathers family and friends around warmth, light and love. This puzzle celebrates the season's true gifts: joy, memories, and time spent with those who matter most.
What the words in this puzzle mean
- FAMILY
- The people the holiday is built around, and the reason for most of its travel.
- FELIZ NAVIDAD
- Spanish for "Merry Christmas", and the title of José Feliciano's 1970 song.
- FIREPLACE
- Where stockings hang, and the route tradition gives Santa into the house.
- FRIENDS
- The second circle of the season, gathered at parties and at the table.
- GIVING
- The impulse the season turns on — presents, charity and hospitality alike.
- GREETINGS
- The cards and good wishes exchanged through December.
- HAPPINESS
- What the greeting itself wishes on whoever hears it.
- HOLIDAYS
- The stretch of days from Christmas Eve through the New Year.
- HOT COCOA
- Sweetened chocolate in hot milk, the drink of cold evenings and snowy afternoons.
- JESUS
- The birth the feast marks, and the origin of its name — Christ's Mass.
- JOY
- The word most often sung and printed at Christmas, from carols to cards.
- LIGHTS
- Strings of them on trees, eaves and streets, replacing the older candles.
- LOVE
- The sentiment the season claims above all others.
- MEMORIES
- What repetition builds — the same songs, foods and rituals every year.
- MISTLETOE
- An evergreen hung in a doorway, under which a kiss is traditionally allowed.
- SANTA CLAUS
- The gift-bringer descended from Saint Nicholas and Dutch Sinterklaas.
- SNOW
- The weather Christmas is pictured with, whether or not it actually falls.
- TIME
- What people take off work, and what the season asks them to spend on each other.
- WINTER
- The season Christmas sits in, near the shortest day of the northern year.
- YULETIDE
- An older name for the season, from the Norse midwinter feast of Yule.
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