IT'S HYPHENATED
It's a synonym for carousel
merry-go-round
In 1942 this crooner had a No. 1 hit with "White Christmas"
Bing Crosby
Mentha piperita is peppermint; this is Mentha spicata
spearmint
This Capra classic was based on a Philip Van Doren Stern short story written for a Christmas card
It's a Wonderful Life
In The Bahamas not only is the fruitcake drenched in this potent potable, the ingredients are as well
Rum
According to the Flag Code, for 30 days after the death of a president, the flag should be flown this way
At half staff
This title line is followed by "underneath the mistletoe last night"
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
Cilantro comes from this plant whose name is derived from koris, meaning "bug"; they emit a similar odor
In this 1954 film song and dance team Wallace and Davis rendezvous with the Haynes sisters in Vermont
White Christmas
In "Martin Chuzzlewit", this author called fruitcake "a geological homemade cake"
Dickens
Like the platypus, dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs have this descriptive facial adjective applied to them
duck-bill
His "Christmas Album" of 1957 includes the now classic "Blue Christmas"
Elvis Presley
These grayish-blue seeds used to garnish the tops of breads & pastries are so tiny that 900,000 equal a pound
poppy seeds
Basically, this heartwarming Frank Capra classic is about a disgraced financier having an incredibly rough Christmas Eve
It's a Wonderful Life
A spicy fruitcake from Italy, panforte means "strong" this
Bread
It takes about a week to travel the 5,700-mile route from Moscow to Vladivostok on this railway
the Trans-Siberia
It's the alternate title & first line of "The Christmas Song", definitively sung by Nat King Cole
"Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire"
This nutmeg spice has an aroma reminiscent of cinnamon & pepper
mace
In this film Santa tells Buddy there are 30 Ray's Pizzas in NYC; "They all claim to be the original, but the real one's on 11th"
Elf
Gugelhupf, a German fruitcake also called turban cake, may date from the effort of these people to conquer the region
the Ottomans (or the Turks)
During the Revolutionary War, George Washington had many of these confidential assistants including Alexander Hamilton
Aide-de-camp
In 2014 Bob Geldof re-recorded this 30-year-old song as a fundraiser to fight Ebola
"Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Once called Indian saffron because of its yellow color, it's used to color cheese & butter
turmeric
In "The Muppet Christmas Carol", he played Scrooge
Michael Caine
In theirs, the ancient Romans used pine nuts, barley mash & seeds from this red fruit associated with Persephone
the pomegranate