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Across

  1. Any decoration hung on the tree, like a glass ball (8)
  2. The bird roasted for a British Christmas dinner (6)
  3. Pulled by two people at dinner: it bangs and holds a paper crown (7)
  4. Song sung door to door at Christmas, like “Silent Night” (5)
  5. The four weeks before Christmas, counted down with a calendar (6)
  6. Christmas ___: dark steamed dessert with dried fruit, set alight at the table (7)
  7. Plant hung over a doorway: meet under it and you may get a kiss (9)
  8. Evergreen with prickly leaves and red berries (5)

Down

  1. Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet: “The ___” (10)
  2. Ring of evergreen branches hung on the front door (6)
  3. Holiday on December 26 in the UK, Canada and Australia (9)
  4. Santa is said to climb down it into the house (7)
  5. Shiny silver strands draped over the branches of the tree (6)
  6. Rolled chocolate cake shaped like a piece of firewood (7)