Some of my best landings, crosswind or not, have come from landing with a definite rate-of-descent on. I've found that if I try to reduce the ROD to zero as I touch down, the speedbrakes deploy and immediately drop the airframe the length of the oleos. Letting the aircraft settle onto the tarmac in a flared attitude seems to take up the slack in the legs before the lift dumping really takes effect: if you get it *just* right, the vertical component of the fuselage velocity reaches close to zero as you reach the limit of oleo compression and *stays there*.
In fact, if you just increase the pitch a few degs. at 25-30R and hold it, the aeroplane will do the rest. Funny old thing, that's what the manuals say!