REMEMBER DECEMBER
This song heard often in December was once called "One Horse Open Sleigh" & was written for Thanksgiving
"Jingle Bells"
Aka "false making", this crime can apply to art, like 450 pieces in Italy in 2024 that were not in fact by Klimt et al.
forgery (counterfeiting)
OK, everybody, we've all been instructed to do this "with boughs of holly"
deck the halls
Floating in space without a suit? You won't explode--this "largest organ" is too strong--but you will puff up into a flesh balloon
the skin
"According to the space your token reaches, you may be entitled to buy real estate or other properties"
Monopoly
During the winter solstice each December, this spot on the Earth is tilted 23.4 degrees away from the Sun
the North Pole
You're indicted for this; your wives Etta, Flo, Bridget, Mindy, Nan & Gwen put up bail for you... & really prove the case
polygamy
We can always count on them--in "The Twelve Days Of Christmas", the "8 maids" are doing this
a-milking
A type of star in a binary system that sucks the gas & plasma from its companion star is appropriately named after this creature
a vampire star
"A player can make only one accusation during any one game"
Clue
Not just self-adulation, but beauty & youth are associated with the name of this birth flower for December
a narcissus
DAILY DOUBLE
This crime refers to illegally transporting booze or taping & selling that Doobie Brothers concert
bootlegging
Magically, with an "old silk hat they found", some kids placed it on his head & "he began to dance around"
Frosty
A "rogue" one of these in our solar system might not spaghettify us, but the pull of its singularity would be nasty
a black hole
"After assigning your ability scores, determine your ability modifiers using the ability scores and modifiers table"
Dungeons & Dragons(D&D)
The shammash, a "servant" candle, is used to light the other 8 on this candle holder seen in Jewish windows
a menorah
New York lists 5 degrees of this; 5th is a misdemeanor but 1st, with use of an incendiary device, is a felony that can get you 25 years
arson
These 2 words,
these 2 words,
these 2 words,
then
"próspero año y felicidad"
feliz navidad
GRB is short for this "burst" of energy--if one goes off just 1,000 light-years away, it's bye-bye us
a gamma ray burst
"Alaska is considered adjacent to, and may attack, Kamchatka"
Risk
The most popular of the Roman festivals, this December celebration of much merrymaking was dedicated to the god of agriculture
Saturnalia
Thailand hands out sentences as long as 60 years for this crime, a term from the French for injuring royal dignity
lèse-majesté
"She'd been drinkin' too much egg nog, & we'd begged her not to go" but unfortunately this happened anyway
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
In six billion years, our sun will become this type of star, & Earth, our poor little dirt ball, likely won't make it out intact, per NASA
a red giant
"You may build roads, settlements or cities and/or buy development cards"
catan