| 100% | AGLOW | 5 | Like the eyes of tiny tots, in a classic Christmas carol |
| 47% | EERIE | 5 | Like the sight of glowing eyes in a dark forest |
| 47% | GAY | 3 | Like the apparel in a certain Christmas carol |
| 45% | CALM | 4 | Like the eye of a storm |
| 45% | CALM | 4 | Like the eye of a hurricane |
| 45% | CALM | 4 | Like the eye of a storm, ironically |
| 42% | AMORE | 5 | Cause of the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie, in song |
| 42% | GLAZEDOVER | 10 | Like the eyes of a person who hasn't gotten enough sleep |
| 41% | GABLED | 6 | Like the house in a Hawthorne classic |
| 40% | LUTHERAN | 8 | Like the carol "Away in a Manger," originally |
| 40% | PRETTY | 6 | Like the woman in a Roy Orbison classic |
| 40% | SILENTNIGHT | 11 | Classic Christmas carol ... made literal in 10 of this puzzle's down entries |
| 39% | COOL | 4 | Like the other side of the pillow, in a saying |
| 39% | FAINT | 5 | Like the glow of the last embers in a fire |
| 39% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of games in a "best of" series |
| 39% | SILKY | 5 | Like the hair of a model in a shampoo ad |
| 39% | SLIM | 4 | Like the odds of finding a needle in a haystack |
| 39% | PARTRIDGE | 9 | Bird in a pear tree, in a classic Christmas carol |
| 39% | FLAMING | 7 | Like the “Creatures” in a landmark work of underground queer cinema |
| 39% | COEQUALLY | 9 | In a way that's like people of the same rank |
| 39% | PARTRIDGE | 9 | Bird in a pear tree in the Christmas carol |
| 39% | RUNTY | 5 | Like the tiniest pup in a litter |
| 39% | JACOBMARLEY | 11 | Deceased business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol |
| 39% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of years in a periodical cicada’s life cycle |
| 38% | SILKEN | 6 | Like the “fringe of his faint eyes,” in Shelley’s elegy for Keats |
| 38% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme |
| 38% | INSET | 5 | Tiny map in the corner of a bigger map |
| 38% | FURLOUGH | 8 | A leave of absence, like in the armed forces |
| 38% | TEENAGE | 7 | Like the "wasteland" in a classic Who song |
| 38% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of cards in a full house or three of a kind |