| 100% | DASHER | 6 | First reindeer named in “A Visit from St. Nicholas” |
| 87% | DASHER | 6 | First reindeer mentioned in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 74% | VIXEN | 5 | Reindeer name "rhymed" with Blitzen in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 72% | DANCER | 6 | Second reindeer mentioned in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 61% | NESTLED | 7 | Like the children in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 61% | PRANCER | 7 | Partner of Vixen in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 57% | SASH | 4 | Part of a window thrown up in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 57% | TWAS | 4 | First word of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 56% | NOD | 3 | St. Nicholas gives one in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 56% | SASH | 4 | Window part that gets thrown up in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" |
| 54% | ALL | 3 | With 50-Down, like the children in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 53% | TWAS | 4 | "A Visit From St. Nicholas" opener |
| 53% | MOORE | 5 | "A Visit From St. Nicholas" poet |
| 53% | MOORE | 5 | "A Visit From St. Nicholas" writer |
| 53% | TOALLAGOODNIGHT | 15 | "A Visit From St. Nicholas" ending |
| 52% | TITLE | 5 | "A Visit From St. Nicholas," e.g. |
| 52% | POEM | 4 | "A Visit from St. Nicholas," for one |
| 52% | MOORE | 5 | Clement C. ___, writer of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 52% | RECITED | 7 | Declaimed, as "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 52% | TWAS | 4 | Start of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 51% | ORATE | 5 | Perform "A Visit from St. Nicholas," for example |
| 50% | TRANQUILITY | 11 | Name of a sea first visited in 1969 |
| 49% | SASH | 4 | Something the narrator of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" threw up |
| 49% | CHRISTMAS | 9 | "'Twas the night before ___ ..." (start of "A Visit from St. Nicholas") |
| 48% | DASH | 4 | "Now ___ away! ___ away! ___ away all!" (line in "A Visit From St. Nicholas") |
| 47% | ERE | 3 | "But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight ..." ("A Visit From St. Nicholas" line) |
| 44% | NOAH | 4 | First name in a dictionary |
| 43% | ANNABEL | 7 | First name in a Poe poem |
| 43% | ROBINSON | 8 | First name in a Defoe book |
| 43% | URIAH | 5 | First name in a Dickens classic |