Christmas (2)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed (7)
  2. 6. Sweet baked dessert for birthdays (4)
  3. 8. Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud (plural) (7)
  4. 12. The season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas (6)
  5. 13. Australian ___ or shrub with red flowers (13)
  6. 15. Heavenly messenger with wings (5)
  7. 16. Sweet treat made from sugar (5)

Down

  1. 1. A mock scepter carried by a court jester (plural) (7)
  2. 2. The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born (7)
  3. 3. Sweet brown treat made from cacao beans (9)
  4. 5. Gifts wrapped for birthdays and holidays (8)
  5. 7. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games (plural) (5)
  6. 9. A vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through (7)
  7. 10. Frozen flakes that fall in winter (4)
  8. 11. Mother of Jesus (4)
  9. 14. Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving (6)