Answer: NOEL
NOEL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 287 times.
Referring Clues:
- Present time
 - Christmas
 - Season of peace
 - Christmas carol
 - Christmas song
 - Winter holiday
 - Carol
 - Coward of note
 - December air
 - "The Seven Joys of Mary," e.g.
 - Winter air
 - Christmastime
 - Holiday song
 - Sophisticated Coward
 - Wassailer's song
 - Stocking-up time?
 - Yuletide
 - "O Sanctissima," e.g.
 - Choral rendition
 - Time for eggnog
 - Seasonal tune
 - Lois Lane portrayer Neill
 - Season of giving
 - Christmas season
 - "Joyeux ___" (French greeting)
 - December song
 - Song sung by candlelight, perhaps
 - Season for carols
 - Holiday tune
 - Season to be jolly
 - Advent song
 - Seasonal air
 - Song sung on doorsteps
 - Song by candlelight
 - "The First ___"
 - Present time in France?
 - Seasonal song
 - Family-gathering time
 - Coward of the stage
 - "Away in a Manger," for one
 - Advent number
 - Coward of the theater
 - "The first ___, the angel did say ..."
 - Song sung around Christmas
 - Year-end air
 - Witty Coward
 - Seasonal melody
 - Singer/composer Coward
 - Coward of song
 - Christmas in Caen
 - Caroling time
 - "The First ___" (Christmas carol)
 - Carolers' offering
 - Coward of the theatre
 - Playwright Coward
 - "The Windmills of Your Mind" singer Harrison
 - Christmas number
 - "Private Lives" playwright Coward
 - Caroling song
 - Caroler's number
 - "Silent Night," notably
 - Caroler's rendition
 - December ditty
 - Songwriter/playwright Coward
 - Coward in the theater
 - Coward who composed
 - Musical Coward
 - Christmas, in Cannes
 - "Nude with Violin" playwright Coward
 - "Joyeux" time
 - Coward with a pen
 - Real first name of Peter, Paul & Mary's Paul Stookey
 - 25 décembre
 - Carolers' song
 - Hiver holiday
 - Père ___ (Santa Claus, in France)
 - Décembre holiday
 - "Joyeux ___"?(French holiday card sentiment)
 - Santa's time of year
 - Holiday carol
 - Word repeated before "Born is the king of Israel"
 - Holiday number
 - Doorstep rendition
 - "The First __"
 - December doorstep number
 - Seasonal ditty
 - House-to-house number, perhaps
 - When to see Nick at night?
 - Holiday time
 - Christmas air
 - George Gordon __ Byron
 - Yuletide tune
 - Year-end tune
 - "Silent Night" or "The Little Drummer Boy"
 - Caroler's offering
 - ''The Seven Joys of Mary,'' e.g.
 - Yule tune
 - Year-end time or tune
 - ''Silent Night,'' e.g.
 - Christmas card greeting
 - Oft-repeated carol word
 - Time for icicle lights
 - Talented Coward
 - Coward of England
 - Caroler's air
 - Song sung by candlelight, sometimes
 - ''Private Lives'' playwright Coward
 - Yuletide song
 - House-to-house offering, at times
 - Dramatist Coward
 - Carol word
 - Christmas card word, often
 - Christmas word
 - Sir Coward
 - Noted Coward
 - English Coward
 - House-to-house number
 - "Joyeux ___!"
 - Christmas tune
 - Name that's a name backward
 - Writer Coward
 - "Silent Night" or "Away in a Manger"
 - Year-end refrain
 - He's a real Coward
 - Good name for someone born on Dec. 25
 - Christmas, in Calais
 - He's a Coward
 - Christmas refrain
 - "The First ___" (Christmas tune)
 - "Silent Night," e.g.
 - George Gordon ___ Byron
 - "Joyeux ___"
 - When to display une crèche
 - Chilly air?
 - "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" author Coward
 - Yule song
 - "Away in a Manger," e.g.
 - "The First ___" (holiday tune)
 - Air that circulates annually
 - Yuletide season
 - Seasonal song ... or a phonetic hint to 18-, 23-, 37-, 52- and 59-Across
 - December season
 - 48-Down refrain
 - Coward of comedy
 - Yuletide refrain
 - Yule refrain
 - Christmas rendition
 - Yuletide melody
 - Yuletide rendition
 - Yule
 - Caroling tune
 - Seasonal number
 - Holiday season
 - "Frosty" air?
 - Time of Christmas
 - Coward in the theater?
 - "Jingle Bells," e.g.
 - Rex Harrison's singer/actor son
 - Year-end season
 - "Joy to the World," for one
 - "Angels From the Realms of Glory," e.g.
 - Time to stuff stockings
 - "O Come, All Ye Faithful," e.g.
 - Liam's brother in Oasis
 - Door-to-door December ditty
 - December tune
 - Knighted Coward
 - "Blithe Spirit" author Coward
 - "Joy to the World," e.g.
 - Joyeux time of year
 - "Adeste Fideles," e.g.
 - Coward of theater
 - Décembre event
 - Christmas in France
 - Caroling word
 - Sleigh ride song
 - Coward of films
 - "Christians Awake," e.g.
 - "Silent Night," for one
 - Wassailer's tune
 - "O Come, All Ye Faithful," for one
 - Coward from England
 - Songwriter Coward
 - "We Three Kings of Orient Are," e.g.
 - Coward of cinema
 - Coward who said "I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise"
 - Seasonal Susan Sarandon drama
 - "O Holy Night," for one
 - December number
 - Festive season
 - Christmas delivery
 - Holiday-time song
 - The season to be jolly
 - Coward of broadway
 - Seasonal refrain
 - "Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella," e.g.
 - "Angels We Have Heard on High," e.g.
 - Time for a creche
 - Christmas in Paris
 - Holiday word
 - "iI saw three ships come sailing in," e.g.
 - Word sung four times before "Born is the King of Israel"
 - Rhyme for "Israel," in a carol
 - French Christmas
 - Suzanne's pet pig on "Designing Women"
 - Time to carol
 - Coward
 - Eggnog time
 - Joyeux time in Paris
 - 'Tis the season
 - Holiday air
 - Festive span
 - Tinsel time
 - "Père ___" (France's Santa)
 - The Christmas season
 - Coward often quoted
 - Period around Dec. 25
 - London's ___ Coward Theater
 - Coward who told stories
 - Author Behn
 - Time for some wrap parties?
 - The present time?
 - December word
 - Winter time
 - Felicity's dorm advisor
 - Coward who wrote "Blithe Spirit"
 - Christmas: fr.
 - Nativity tune
 - Time of good cheer
 - A number for December
 - Mime-dancer parenti
 - Christmas card word
 - Doorstep tune, perhaps
 - "Do You Hear What I Hear?," e.g.
 - Pere ____ ( Santa Claus's AKA in France )
 - Carolers' tune
 - Christmas, in carols
 - "The First ___" (carol)
 - Word on Christmas decorations
 - Coward in drama
 - What 21-, 41- or 61-Across is ... and, phonetically, a curiously apt common feature of those answers
 - Word on December decorations
 - Season to be full of cheer
 - Word repeatedly sung before "Born is the king of Israel"
 - French for "Christmas"
 - Actress Sydelle
 - Christmas carol ... or, read as two parts, a theme hint
 - Word sung at Christmas
 - Name that's another name backward
 - Caroling unit
 - Coward with a knighthood
 - Early winter season
 - "The First ___": holiday song
 - Year-end number
 - Christmas song word
 - Caroling standard
 - "Craig of the Creek" voice actress Wells
 - Name derived from the Latin for "to be born"
 - Winter air?
 - Traditional name for a child born on December 25
 - Festive French season
 - Caroler's tune
 - Advent air
 - Doorstep delivery, at times?
 - Holiday song, and, phonetically, an apt description of the answers to the starred clues
 - "The Great British Bake Off" co-presenter Fielding
 - "The Kings of Napa" star Ebonee
 - Oasis guitarist Gallagher
 - Pere ___ (French Santa)
 - Sydelle of Netflix's "GLOW"
 - "Joyeux ___!" ("Merry Christmas," in French)
 - Name that's 38-Across rearranged
 - "The First ___" (Christmas song)
 - French name that anagrams to Leon
 - Time for some wrap parties
 - Fielding of "The Great British Bake Off"
 - Christmas, in French
 - Christmas carol word
 - Fisher of "Shameless"
 - English playwright Coward
 - Christmas, in France
 - Number of carolers?
 - Père ___ (Santa's French counterpart)
 - Coward of the theater world
 - Marché de ___ (French yuletide market)
 - French holiday
 - "The Great British Baking Show" co-host Fielding
 
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 - USA Today - October 24, 2024
 - New York Times - July 09, 2024
 - LA Times - July 07, 2024
 
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