| Onset |
| Coming |
| Arrival |
| A coming |
| Beginning |
| Start ___ |
| Starting time? |
| Coming into being |
| Pre-Christmas time |
| Season for a candle? |
| Christian observance |
| Pre-Christmas season |
| Pre-Christmas period |
| Time before Christmas |
| Candle-lighting season |
| Period before Christmas |
| Time for a special calendar |
| ___ calendar (holder of small chocolates) |
| Period beginning four Sundays before Christmas |
| ___ calendar (holder of little gifts leading up to Christmas to kind of whet your present-receiving whistle) |