Complete Clue List
Across
1. Christian name of Marley, Scrooge's former business partner
4. Call upon, as four ghosts did with Scrooge
7. Chronicle, long short story, "A Christmas Carol," for one
8. Christmas ____, time setting of Stave one of "A Christmas Carol" in bleak, cold London
9. Country meadow
10. Committed an offence
13. Charles Dickens was touched by the ____ (fate) of poor children in Victorian times
15. Cravat or neckwear
17. Common viral illness (abbr.)
19. Constitute: a changed Scrooge tries to personify the spirit of Christmas in how he treats others
22. Compensation: the day after Christmas, Bob Cratchit received an increase in ____
24. Certain dash lengths
25. Chooses not to participate (4,3), as with Scrooge at the beginning of "A Christmas Carol"
26. Completely filled, as after a lavish Christmas feast
27. Communications medium which saw an adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" by the BBC in 1923
Down
1. Crisscrosses or weaves
2. Charming group?
3. Company performance, with two such adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" being produced in the 1990s
4. Chemist's container
5. Convert: After a disliked man's death, Scrooge sees people ____ his possessions for sale to a fence
6. Cope with OR coddle
11. Calamity
12. Concluding words of "A Christmas Carol": "Tiny Tim, who did not ____"
14. Central character Ebenezer Scrooge is described as a "clutching, covetous ____ sinner!"
16. "Caveat ____", "buyer beware" (Lat.)
17. Christmas afternoon sees a changed Scrooge spend the afternoon with nephew ____ family (possessive)
18. Confused, distraught: Scrooge's feelings on hearing himself described by former fiancée Belle
20. Circular, sort of
21. Coming: "The Ghost of Christmas ____ Come" (3,2); the third spirit silently shows Scrooge the future
23. Common contraction: "____ be surprised"