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Across 3. M - A long open box or trough for horses or cattle to eat from 6. N - The occasion of a person's birth 8. C - Religious folk songs or popular hymns 10. D - Ornamentation 11. O - Things used to adorn something but usually having no practical purpose 12. J - The central figure of the Christian religion 13. E - Supernatural creatures of folk tales, typically represented as small, elusive figures in human form with pointed ears 16. B - A small town 5 miles (8 km) south of Jerusalem, in the West Bank 17. T - News; information: "the bearer of glad _______". 18. K - Male rulers of an independent state 19. H - The branches, foliage, and berries of this plant used as Christmas decorations 20. Y - Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 21. V - One of Santa Claus's reindeer 22. S - Ebenezer, a miserly curmudgeon in Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol

Down 1. A - The first season of the church year, leading up to Christmas and including the four preceding Sundays 2. I - A thin, shiny strip of plastic or foil hung on a Christmas tree for decoration 4. P - A tropical American shrub that has showy, usually scarlet bracts beneath the small yellow flowerlike inflorescences 5. F - An aromatic gum resin obtained from an African tree and burned as incense. 7. W - An arrangement of flowers, leaves, or stems fastened in a ring and used for decoration 9. L - A lamp with a transparent case protecting the flame or electric bulb and a handle by which it can be carried or hung. 14. G - A person who is mean-spirited and unfriendly 15. R - A deer of the tundra and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America