Reading – three short texts
1D, 2A, 3B

Socks and Snowballs
1 Father Christmas
2 stockings
3 baubles
4 tinsel
5 mistletoe
6 holly
7 ivy
8 stuffing
9 Brussels sprouts
10 gravy
11 Christmas pudding
12 pie
13 (Christmas) crackers
14 charades

West Side Story Songs
1B “America”
2C “I Feel Pretty”
3D “Tonight”
4A “Somewhere”
“Somewhere” – quiet
“America” – knows
“I Feel Pretty” – bright
“Tonight” – light

The Puzzler
WHO AM I?
1 scream 2 cream = S
3 toucan 4 count = A
5 pineapple 6 apple pie = N
7 tablet 8 table = T
9 beads 10 beds = A
I am SANTA
WORD GLOBE
Christmas presents
A STARTLING PUZZLE
startling – starting – staring – string – sting – sing – sin – in – I
TRICKY QUIZ
1 New Year’s Day is always before Christmas: New Year’s Day is at the beginning of the year, Christmas near the end.
2 “Incorrectly” (It’s spelled I, N, C, O…).
3 No, but since he is dead it would be hard for him to do so. (A widow is a woman whose husband has died.)
4 Once. Next time you would be subtracting 10 from 90.

Northern Light
1 lo-fi
2 breakout
3 sleeper hit
4 stream
5 tour

What Do You Get the Person Who Has Everything?
1 scented
2 novelty
3 ornament
4 cashmere
5 hawk
6 mange
7 vermin
8 pampered
9 assassin

Feeling Like a Digimon
1G, 2B, 3H, 4K, 5A, 6C, 7I, 8E, 9F, 10D, 11J