| 100% | SNOW | 4 | * You know Christmas is right around the corner when the streets are covered with this "cold, white blanket" |
| 69% | LIGHTS | 6 | * You know Christmas is right around the corner when the houses are decorated with hundreds of these "illuminating bulbs" |
| 63% | TREE | 4 | * You know Christmas is right around the corner when this centerpiece is "put up" |
| 61% | GIFT | 4 | * You know Christmas is right around the corner when you look for this to "fill your stocking" |
| 60% | WREATH | 6 | * You know Christmas is right around the corner when you see this "garland of twigs" on the door |
| 56% | CAROLS | 6 | * You know Christmas is right around the corner when you hear "Jingle Bells" and the like |
| 55% | ADVENT | 6 | * You know Christmas is right around the corner because "it's marked in this Calendar" |
| 33% | CACTI | 5 | You might be stuck with these when traveling in the Southwest |
| 31% | CHARLES | 7 | *Did you know, ___ Nagreen, was credited with the creation of 40a when he was 15-years-old? |
| 30% | ALL | 3 | The exams are right around the corner! Get together with your friends for an ___-night study session |
| 27% | MOP | 3 | You should be able to wipe the floor with this |
| 27% | COTTONWOOD | 10 | North American poplar such as the Eastern — whose seeds are covered with white hairs |
| 26% | NEAR | 4 | Right around the corner |
| 26% | CLOSE | 5 | Right around the corner |
| 26% | NYE | 3 | Time when the next year is just around the corner: Abbr. |
| 26% | QUALIFIED | 9 | Someone with the right training is this |
| 26% | NEAR | 4 | Right around the corner, say |
| 26% | SNOWY | 5 | Covered in a cold white blanket |
| 25% | HOME | 4 | *Did you know 14a is a great architect and builds a ___ (place "where the heart is") with multiple rooms? |
| 25% | CONNECTICUT | 11 | The Constitution State ... or, when parsed differently, what you gradually do with this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 25% | ESP | 3 | If you have it, you might know what this answer is without reading the clue |
| 25% | CROAKS | 6 | What you hear in this conversation: "How's life here at the pond?" "Oh, you know, eating bugs, hopping around, the usual." |
| 25% | SNOWS | 5 | Covers with a cold blanket? |
| 25% | INDUETIME | 9 | When the moment is right |
| 25% | NARDWUAR | 8 | Eccentric Canadian interviewer known for beginning with the question "Who are you?" |
| 25% | MAHER | 5 | Bill with the 2024 book "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You" |
| 25% | BRENDALEE | 9 | Artist whose Christmas song beat "All I Want for Christmas Is You" to No. 1 on the Billboard charts this month |
| 24% | SNOWBOARD | 9 | Hit the slopes to surf on the white wintery blankets with this piece of winter sports equipment |
| 24% | REPOMAN | 7 | 1984 film with the tagline "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" |
| 24% | SOUTHSEVENSTEPS | 15 | "Aye, the treasure be heavy, so flex yer biceps! With this third clue, turn right and go ___" |