(CHARLES) DARWIN, ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES -- There is grandeur in this view of life... that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the... law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and... wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
A. | The opposite of freeze | DEFROST |
B. | Start of a liturgical year | ADVENT |
C. | Landing spot for a holiday flight | ROOFTOP |
D. | What a hearth is for | WARMTH |
E. | Hanger-on in winter | ICICLE |
F. | Christmas, in many lands | NAVIDAD |
G. | Where it's cold, per a Frank Loesser song | OUTSIDE |
H. | Ingredient for Answer Y. | NUTMEG |
I. | Day of drummers drumming | TWELFTH |
J. | Sacred | HALLOWED |
K. | Language invented by Tolkien | ELVISH |
L. | Candy canes, stars, globes, etc. | ORNAMENTS |
M. | Gift decoration | RIBBON |
N. | Kind of skates (hyph.) | INLINE |
O. | Angel who appeared to Muhammad | GABRIEL |
P. | Prophet on the Sistine Chapel ceiling | ISAIAH |
Q. | Guiding light in a Yuletide song | NOSE |
R. | Poet who wrote "The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus" (2 wds.) | OGDENNASH |
S. | Year-end holiday in a sitcom | FESTIVUS |
T. | What's in a Christmas goose | STUFFING |
U. | Story with a moral | PARABLE |
V. | Pine, hemlock, spruce or holly | EVERGREEN |
W. | Point of entry once a year | CHIMNEY |
X. | What a mall Santa's beard might be | ITCHY |
Y. | "Tom and Jerry" by another name | EGGNOG |
Z. | Amount a storm might deposit | SNOWFALL |