If you haven’t tried the Christmas Cryptic Carols yet, do so before reading the rest of this post. You can find the brain teaser in the December Archives.

1. (Small city of Judea) O little town of Bethlehem
2. (Colorless Yuletime) White Christmas
3. (Singular yearning for twin anterior incisors)All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth
4. (Loyal Followers Advance) Oh Come all ye Faithful
5. (Righteous Darkness) O Holy Night
6. (Weather: cloudless; Arrival time: 2400 hours) Once Upon a Midnight Clear
7. (Far off in a feeder) Away in a Manger
8. (Array the corridors) Deck the Halls
9. (Bantam Percussionist) Little Drummer Boy
10. (Monarchial triad) We Three Kings
11. (Nocturnal Noiselessness) Silent Night
12. (Father Christmas En Route to Borough) Santa Claus is Coming to Town
13. (Initial Christmas) The First Noel
14. (Frozen Precipitation Commence) Let it Snow
15. (Proceed and enlighten on the pinnacle) Go Tell it on the Mountain
16. (The quaduped with the vermillion proboscis) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
17. (Delight for this Planet) Joy to the World
18. (Query regarding Identity of Descendant) What Child is This?
19. (Give Attention to the melodious celestial beings) Hark the Herald Angels Sing
20. (Hence Arriveth Kris Kringle) Here Comes Santa Claus
21. (To descry matriarchal osculation of yuletide anthropomorphism) I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause
22. (At the zenith of the habitat) Up on the Rooftop
23. (Endocarps vesicated in a conflagration) Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
24. (Jehovah duleify blithe chevallers) God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen