| IIN | "... and ___ my cap" (line from A Visit From St. Nicholas) |
| PLUMP | "He was chubby and ___ ..." (line from "A Visit From St. Nicholas") |
| DROLL | "His ___ little mouth was drawn up like a bow" (line from "A Visit From St. Nicholas") |
| ERE | "... ___ he drove out of sight" (Line from "A Visit from St. Nicholas") |
| BOOK | From the Old English for "beech", a bibliophilic item printed with a story, poem etc, such as A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Chimes, Little Women or A Visit from St. Nicholas (4) |
| SUGARPLUM | Mentioned in A Visit from St. Nicholas, a crystallised damsonlike fruit, or; a spiced fruit-and-nut confection resembling such (5,4) |
| TOALL | A Visit from St. Nicholas ending, "... and ___ ___ a good night!" |
| NOD | "And giving a ___, up the chimney he rose" ("A Visit From St. Nicholas" excerpt) |
| POEMS | A Visit from St. Nicholas, and others |
| DASH | "Now ___ away! ___ away! ___ away all!" (line in "A Visit From St. Nicholas") |
| SASH | Part of a window thrown up in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| DASHER | Plunger in a butter churn; boards of an ice hockey rink; or, one of the reindeer in Clement Clarke Moore's poem A Visit from St . Nicholas (6) |
| BEFORE | The first line of the 1823 poem A Visit From St Nicholas, "Twas the night _ Christmas" (6) |
| MOORE | Scholar whose poem A Visit from St Nicholas names Santa Claus's reindeer and captures the anticipation of the night before Christmas (5) |
| TWAS | Start of 'A Visit From St. Nicholas' |
| DANCER | The second reindeer mentioned in the poem A Visit from St Nicholas |
| NESTLED | Like the children in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| RECITED | Declaimed, as "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| KERCHIEF | Mama's wear in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| DECLINES | "A Visit From St. Nicholas" or Christmas, e.g.? |
