| PAPERHAT | Christmas cracker gift |
| EGG | Christmas cracker? An all year cracker really (3) |
| PINATA | Christmas cracker? |
| MOTTO | Christmas cracker text |
| NUT | Christmas cracker? (3) |
| WISH | Possibly a Christmas cracker to pull thus contains letters on a pencil in red, say? (8) |
| BOTTOMLESS | Grace holds content of Christmas cracker up, yawning (10) |
| JOKES | Short gag about fine Christmas cracker contents (5) |
| PULLTOGETHER | Co-operate with instructions on a Christmas cracker? |
| SNAP | A simple card game, a banger inside a Christmas cracker; or, a rolled ginger biscuit containing whipped cream (4) |
| PUNIC | Supposedly treacherous Christmas cracker joke — I start to cackle |
| TRADITION | From "across", "deliver" and "give", word for a custom, such as Christmas cracker-pulling, stir-up Sunday pudding-making, tree-decorating or wassailing, handed-down from one generation to the next (9) |
| JOKE | Amusing story found in a Christmas cracker (4) |
| THERESNOSAYING | Anybody's guess why Christmas cracker disappoints? (6,2,6) |
| BREAKER | One ripping up verses, perhaps, after first found in Christmas cracker? (11) |
| CODE | One ripping up verses, perhaps, after first found in Christmas cracker? (11) |
| BONBONS | Another name for Christmas crackers |
| PAPERHATS | Folded items in Christmas crackers |
| MONARCHISTS | Christmas crackers to grip on, those for Elizabeth? (11) |
| PAPER | Material used in crafting to make snowflake decorations, honeycomb baubles, Christmas crackers, doilies, streamers or lanterns (5) |
