Holiday-themed miniature diagramless

[rhu]

Across
1. Start of a message
6. Get used to
7. Kings, like Achashverosh
8. Taste wine, not like Achashverosh
9. Dorothy’s Auntie and her namesakes

Down
1. Belonging to that man
2. Seed used in cooking. (Esther might have eaten it in the palace)
3. End of the message
4. Gets ready, informally
5. What Vashti didn’t say