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Hard Christmas Crossword for Adults Hard, made for adults · 8 across, 9 down
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2 Across · Semi-parasitic evergreen with white berries, hung above doorways (9)
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Easyfor kids Medium Hardfor adults Printable Across 2 Semi-parasitic evergreen with white berries, hung above doorways (9) 4 Dead business partner whose ghost drags chains in 'A Christmas Carol' (6) 7 Climbing evergreen paired with a prickly partner in an old English carol (3) 8 Miser reformed by three spirits in an 1843 novella (7) 10 Tchaikovsky ballet premiered in Saint Petersburg in 1892 (10) 14 Red-bracted plant named after the first US minister to Mexico (10) 15 Prickly Christmas shrub, or rock 'n' roll singer Buddy (5) 16 Old toast to good health, and a hot spiced Christmas drink (7) Down 1 Word that follows Bah in a miser's verdict on Christmas (6) 2 Sweet almond paste sculpted into tiny fruit or spread over cake (8) 3 Glittering decoration, an anagram of 'listen' (6) 5 German fruit loaf dusted with sugar, famous from Dresden (7) 6 Bob, the underpaid clerk with a sickly son called Tim (8) 9 Charles who wrote 'A Christmas Carol' in 1843 (7) 11 Fragrant resin offered with gold and frankincense (5) 12 French for Christmas, as in Joyeux ___ (4) 13 Wise men from the East in Matthew's Gospel (4)
Show the answers Across 2 MISTLETOE4 MARLEY7 IVY8 SCROOGE10 NUTCRACKER14 POINSETTIA15 HOLLY16 WASSAILDown 1 HUMBUG2 MARZIPAN3 TINSEL5 STOLLEN6 CRATCHIT9 DICKENS11 MYRRH12 NOEL13 MAGI