`Tis the season

by Phelps Gates

     
         
       
         
       
       
     
     
           
                                   

A.   nativity sign (4 wds)

B.   a Christmas carol (4 wds, after "The")

C.   descriptor of Santa`s helpers

D.   variously spelled ancestor of Jesus (Matthew 1:4,
KJV)

E.   supposed kid`s baseball viewpoint

F.   phoradendron

G.   see Clue O (2 wds)

H.   oriental potentate

I.   supposed Czech carol recorded by the Trapp family
in 1957 (3 wds, after "The")

J.   a painting process that uses beeswax

K.   visitor to O (4 wds)

L.   Polish voters, for example

M.   golfer whose name sounds like a saint

N.   paradigm of dullness (2 wds)

O.   followed by G, a well-known accounting firm

P.   handmaiden

Q.   explanation of A, according to some

R.   submissiveness

S.   pillages

T.   alleged nativity predictor

U.   former

V.   foreman who doubles as worker (2 wds)