Christmas Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 7. A compound lever used to crack nuts open (10)
  2. 9. To arouse or elicit a feeling (8)
  3. 10. Great happiness (3)
  4. 11. Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light (7)
  5. 12. Central figure of Christianity, born in Bethlehem (5)
  6. 14. Any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges (5)

Down

  1. 1. Variety of sweet eating apples (9)
  2. 2. Aromatic bark used as a spice (8)
  3. 3. Holiday celebrated on December 25 (9)
  4. 4. Gifts wrapped for birthdays and holidays (8)
  5. 5. Something considered choice to eat (plural) (6)
  6. 6. The imparting of news or promises etc (6)
  7. 8. Tall plant with a trunk and branches (4)
  8. 13. Frozen flakes that fall in winter (4)