The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word NATIVITY
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More clues leading to the result NATIVITY
- Clever to conceal one’s very inauspicious beginning at birth
- Christmas spruce hiding one little girl
- Everyone’s appearing Christmas show
- It is Christmas. Pessimism for instance has no place
- Inertia, I see, does not stay during Christmas
- Destruction of vanity has appeal due to divine birth
- Origin of pessimism for example is discounted
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The straight part
We know that "It is Christmas" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case it is christmas = nativity.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NATIVITY mean?
NATIVITY noun- Someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.
- Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
- (also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
- (also with capital initial) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day; the festival celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary or the birth of Saint John the Baptist.
- (also with capital initial) A set of figurines used to create a nativity scene.
- Origin; founding.
- Place of origin; place to which a species is native.
- The quality of being native or innate.