Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!
By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.
And today, I’m posting the answers from our updated Word Mastery for the Holidays post on Monday!
[Old-timey carolers, courtesy of CTyuletide.com.]
1.) Move hitherward the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief.
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
2.) Listen, the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds.
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
3.) Proceed forth declaring upon a specific geological alpine formation.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
4.) Nocturnal timespan of unbroken quietness.
Silent Night
5.) Embellish the interior passageways.
Deck the Halls
6.) An emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good given to the terrestrial sphere.
Joy to the World
7.) Twelve o’clock on a clement night witnessed its arrival.
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
8.) The Christmas preceding all others.
The First Noel
9.) Small municipality in Judea southeast of Jerusalem.
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
10.) In a distant location the existence of an improvised unit of newborn children’s slumber furnishings.
Away in a Manger
11.) Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted, metallic, resonant cups.
Jingle Bells
12.) The first person nominative plural of a triumvirate of far eastern heads of state.
We Three Kings (of Orient Are)
13.) Geographic state of fantasy during the season of Mother Nature’s dormancy.
Winter Wonderland
14.) In awe of the nocturnal timespan characterized by religiosity.
Oh Holy Night
15.) Natal celebration devoid of color, rather albino, as an hallucinatory phenomenon for me.
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas
16.) Expectation of arrival to populated areas by mythical, masculine perennial gift-giver.
Here Comes Santa Claus
17.) Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of frozen minute crystals.
Frosty the Snowman
18.) Tranquility upon the terrestrial sphere.
Peace on Earth
19.) Omnipotent supreme being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males.
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
20.) Diminutive masculine master of skin-covered percussionistic cylinders.
Little Drummer Boy
21.) Jovial Yuletide desired for the second person singular or plural by us.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas OR We Wish You a Merry Christmas
22.) Allow winter precipitation in the form of atmospheric water vapor in crystalline form to descend.
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
23.) A first-person observer witnessed a female progenitor engaging in osculation with a hirsute nocturnal intruder.
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
24.) Your continued presence remains the sole Yuletide request of the speaker in question.
All I Want For Christmas Is You OR You’re All I Want for Christmas
25.) Permanent domicile during multiple specific celebratory periods.
(There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays
26.) Diminutive person regarded as holy or virtuous known by the informal moniker shared by two former Russian tsars.
Little St. Nick
27.) More than a passing resemblance to an annual winter festival is emerging.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
28.) Are you registering the same auditory phenomenon I am currently experiencing?
Do You Hear What I Hear?
29.) Overhead at the summit of the suburban residence.
Up on the House Top
30.) Attractive or otherwise visually pleasing wood pulp product.
Pretty Paper
31.) Parasitic European shrub accompanied by a plant with prickly green leaves and baccate qualities.
Mistletoe and Holly OR The Holly and the Ivy
How did you do? Did you get them all, or did one or two stump you? Let me know!
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