| RHEUMY | Composed rhyme about mid-January when cold and damp (6) |
| IMPERVIOUS | Improvise arrangement about mid-january when it cannot be penetrated (10) |
| ASCEND | Climb when cold and finish (6) |
| CALLIN | Seek professional advice when cold and exhausted (4,2) |
| ELMO | Muppet who went viral on X in January when he asked, How is everybody doing? |
| CRUISE | Cries wildly about mid-January holiday (6) |
| HUBBUB | Three bachelors, about mid-January, following Hugh soundly creating a din (6) |
| RITUAL | Girl, about mid-January, taking student for the regular procedure |
| TEAPOT | I'm A Little ____ , song and nursery rhyme about an item that is 'short and stout' (6) |
| CLAMMY | Cold and damp, like a shellfish? (6) |
| WARSAW | Capital in recession had been cold and damp (6) |
| RHYTHM | The endless rhyme about the endless tempo (6) |
| SLEETY | General occupying filthy home that's cold and damp |
| GRUNDY | Solomon ____, English nursery rhyme about a man who lives his entire life in a week (6) |
| JACKBE | Start of a rhyme about a spry lad |
| BAABAA | Start of a nursery rhyme about bags of wool |
| COGNAC | Drink, when cold, can go the wrong way (6) |
| IDIOCY | Folly of designer cut when cold outside (6) |
| FOETAL | When cold, people often sleep in such a position (6) |
| LOLLOP | Bounce along when cold confection is 1p less (6) |
