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Evergreen Enigma: Botanical Yuletide Lexicon
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Botanical misnomer: spiny Christmas emblem or tall ancestral flower?
  • 2. Technique intertwining branches symbolizing infinity in holiday decor
  • 3. Hemiparasitic plant initiating winter solstice romance and lore
  • 4. Acidic fruit of bogs, crimson herald of Christmas feasting
  • 5. Accumulated natural sculpture sculpted by winter’s whispered breaths
  • 8. Old English span of twelfth night revels amid nature’s deep freeze
  • 11. Latin origin denoting birth, root of festive seasonal etymology
  • 13. Ancient arboreal flame burned to beckon returning sun deity
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  • 6. Pertaining to woods; the ancient forest spirits guarding holiday secrets
  • 7. Bearing berries; describing many Christmas plants from holly to ivy
  • 9. Sweet polyol extracted, used in preserving nature’s holiday ornaments
  • 10. Ecological reenactment: symbolic flora around birth of flora and fauna at X-mas
  • 12. Describes something enveloped in the evergreen climbing plant of yuletide
  • 14. Coniferous gland of circadian rhythms, evoking Christmas serenity
  • 15. Granular snow precursor, setting the icy stage for winter’s crown

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