Complete Clue List
Across
1. First three words of the carol (3 wds, 1, 6, 4)
7. "The Bells of Christmas" is often played on this brass instrument
8. Marley's is the first one to appear in this literary carol
9. Archaic term for before, or the first word in a Dutch Christmas song, "___ Zij God"
11. Kenneth Grahame's "Carol of the Field Mice" states "villagers all, this frosty ___"
13. Prefix meaning half
14. Boule de ___, French for snowballs as in the carol "Vive le Vent"
15. From "Silent Night," "Jesus, ____ at thy birth"
17. What choirs do with carols
19. "The (21 across) and fears of all the years are ____"
21. Paired with "fears of all the years" in the carol
22. Perform better
23. A, B or C as they appear on the carol's score (2 wds, 7, 5)
Down
1. Next two words after 1 across (2 wds, 2, 9)
2. Mary sings these two words in the Magnificat following "my spirit rejoices" (NIV, Luke 1:46-7) (2,3)
3. Archaic term for "you", appears in the second line of the carol
4. Precipice or border
5. English words that begin carol originally known as "Adeste Fideles" (2 wds, 1,4)
6. He recorded the carol on "The Magic of Christmas" album in 1960 (3 wds, 3, 4, 4)
10. Verb repeated in "What Child is This" before "the song on high"
12. The word "tonight" appears at this location in the carol's first verse
13. Contemporary carol by Eddie James on the "Glory" album - "___ Here" (contraction)
16. Lines used to secure vessels at dock; perhaps the three ships the Chieftains saw?
18. Short instrumental interlude before the carol's lyrics begin
19. Fractional unit of time; it takes 134 of these for light to circle the equator (abbr.)
20. What bells do, often substituted in "Deck the Halls" as instruction "____ the Yuletide-carol"