(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 |