- TWAS
- A Visit from St. Nicholas opener
- __ the night before ...
- Clement C. Moore opener
- Holiday verse starter
- ___ the Night...
- Christmas poem beginning
- Moore opening
- Holiday poem starter
- First word of a classic yuletide picture book
- First word of a Christmas poem
- Jabberwocky start
- Jabberwocky opener
- Used to be, back in the day
- ___ Love--not me (Emily Dickinson poem)
- ___ grace that taught my heart to fear ("Amazing Grace")
- Poetic word that begins with an apostrophe
- ___ warm — at first — like Us (Emily Dickinson)
- ___ brillig, and the slithy toves ...
- Start of "Jabberwocky"
- __ brillig ...
- Jabberwocky starter
- First word in "Jabberwocky"
- ___ the night before...
- Moore opener
- Opening word of "Jabberwocky"
- Jabberwocky opening
- ___ brillig...
- First word of the second verse of "Amazing Grace"
- Start of an account about the old days
- What comes before the night before
- Quaint-sounding "indeed"
- So lonely _____ that God himself / Scarce seemed there to be (Coleridge)
- Christmas poem opener
- ___ brillig, and the slithy toves... ("Jabberwocky")
- ___ the night before Christmas...
- Start of a Christmas classic
- Word before "brillig"
- Jabberwocky beginning
- First word of a Clement Moore poem
- ...___ but the wind (Lord Byron)
- Start of a Christmas poem
- Moore poem starter
- Christmas poem lead-in
- Yuletide poem opener
- ___ ever thus
- Yuletide verse starter
- It starts "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
- First word of Carroll's "Jabberwocky"
- Word that precedes "brillig"
- Start of a Clement Moore poem
- Start of a yule reading
- ___ brillig...: Carroll
- ...__ but the wind: Byron
- __ the night...
- __ brillig ...: "Jabberwocky" opening
- __ brillig, and the slithy ...: Carroll
- Christmas classic opening
- Christmas or Carroll poem opening
- Quaint contraction
- Seasonal poem lead-in
- Start of a classic Christmas poem
- First word in Moore's Christmas poem
- __ wondrous pitiful: "Othello"
- Christmas poem contraction
- First word of "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
- First word in a classic poem about 17-Across
- __ the night before Christmas ...
- Poetic contraction
- 'Tis in the past
- Clement Moore opener
- Brillig preceder
- Seasonal poem's start
- Word that begins with an apostrophe
- Carroll opener
- Xmas poem start
- Moore poem beginning
- Poet's contraction
- Christmas poem start
- Start of a Carroll work
- Start of an 8 Down poem
- __ Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale: Scott
- __ Christmas told the merriest tale: Scott
- Christmas poem starter
- Yuletide poem starter
- Yuletide verse beginning
- Christmas poem opening
- First word of "Jabberwocky"
- Dickinson contraction
- Old-style "used to be"
- Yuletide poem start
- Moore poem opener
- Quaint "used to be"
- Yule poem opening
- Holiday poem opener
- What the night before Christmas comes after?
- First word of Clement Moore's poem.
- Start of a Xmas poem.
- Start of Clement Moore's poem.
- Before "the night before Christmas"
- Start of Clement Moore poem
- First word of Xmas poem
- First word of Moore poem
- ___ brillig and the slithy . . .
- Dec. 24 word
- Start of a well-known poem
- Start of Clement Moore's famous poem
- Yuletide rhyme opener
- Twos, in Dundee
- Start of a C. Moore poem
- Start of Moore's Yule poem
- ___ a dark and stormy . . .
- Clement C. Moore opening
- Clement C. Moore's opener
- First word of Moore's famous poem
- Start of a C. Moore classic
- Moore starter
- Start of a Yuletide reading
- ... ___ but the wind: Byron
- Moore verse opener
- It's in the past
- ___ wondrous pitiful: "Othello"
- Christmas verse starter
- ___ Love — not me: Dickinson
- Start of "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
- ___ like a Maelstrom, with a notch (Emily Dickinson poem)
- Start of a Clement Moore classic
- ___ not to be
- Xmas poem opener
- ___ autumn, and a clear and placid day: Wordsworth
- Love, when we met, ___ like two planets meeting: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Contraction at the start of a sentence
- Contraction that starts "Jabberwocky"
- ___ a rough night: Macbeth
- Contraction starting a Christmas poem
- Opening on Christmas Eve?
- What comes before the night before Christmas?
- '-- brillig . . .'
- '-- the night before ...'
- '-- ever thus'
- Christmas verse opener
- '-- not to be'
- Clement Clarke Moore opener
- Beginning of a Christmas classic
- ___ the Night (Disney Channel Christmas movie)
- Quaint past-tense contraction
- _____ the night before Christmas...
- A poetic contraction
- First word of a seasonal poem
- Start of a Christmas story
- First word of a Carroll work
- _____ brillig and the slithy toves...
- Classic Christmas opener
- First word in a story from Clement Clarke Moore
- Clement Moore poem opener
- Start for a Moore poem
- Start of a Clement Clarke Moore poem
- First word of a famous Christmas poem
- Famous yuletide poem starter
- Old-timey contraction
- The word before "the night before ..."
- Opening of a classic Christmas poem
- Start of a classic Yuletide verse
- What's before the night before Christmas?
- It was in the past?
- What precedes "the night before Christmas"
- First word in a classic Christmas poem
- Start for Moore poem
- Ò___ the night . . ."
- ___ brillig and the slithey toves . . .
- A Clement Moore opener
- Carroll's "___ brillig . . ."
- Start of a Clement Moore Christmas poem
- 'Tis, in the past tense
- Contraction in a Christmas poem
- Past-tense 'tis
- Past-tense version of 'tis
- Past tense of "'tis"
- - brillig . . .: Carroll
- Moore contraction
- Xmas poem opening
- ___ nothing
- Contraction before "brillig"
- Used to be, once
