Possible Clues:

• Japanese play the Spanish in season
• A lone sort of Christmas
• "Joyeux __!"
• ''The First ___'' (year-end air)
• 'The First ___'
• In carols, it's Christmas
• When to see Nick at night?
• Seasonal number
• Song sung by candlelight, sometimes
• Coward who wrote and acted, d. 1973