| 100% | BEGOODFORGOODNESSSAKE | 21 | Line from ''Santa Claus Is Coming to Town'' |
| 75% | WARNINGTRACK | 12 | "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (Michael Bublé) |
| 72% | POUT | 4 | Ignore one of the warnings in “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” |
| 68% | SANTA | 5 | "___ Claus is Coming to Town" (Michael Buble song) |
| 62% | TOWN | 4 | "Santa Claus Is Coming to ___" |
| 60% | TOWN | 4 | Where Santa Claus is coming, according to Bruce Springsteen in a 1985 Christmas song? |
| 60% | CLAUS | 5 | ''Santa __ Is Coming to Town'' |
| 60% | CLAUS | 5 | "Santa __ Is Coming to Town" |
| 53% | HES | 3 | "___ gonna find out who's naughty or nice, Santa Claus is comin' to town..." |
| 49% | POUT | 4 | What "you better not" do, in "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" |
| 48% | REAL | 4 | What Santa Claus is to kids, but not to adults |
| 43% | HOS | 3 | Sounds from Santa (and what's been added to 17, 39, and 63 Across) |
| 42% | HITTINGTHEROOF | 14 | ... Santa Claus was __ |
| 42% | YOU | 3 | "They're coming to get ___, Barbara!" line from the monster movie "Night of the Living Dead" |
| 42% | RIDESIN | 7 | Comes to town, cowboy-style |
| 41% | YREKA | 5 | California town wrongly thought to be named from a backwards "bakery" sign |
| 41% | YREKA | 5 | California town thought (incorrectly) to be named from a backward "bakery" sign |
| 40% | AINTIAWOMAN | 11 | Bell hooks work whose title comes from a line often attributed to Sojourner Truth |
| 40% | AROSE | 5 | Came to be |
| 39% | HELL | 4 | Where people go to, and come back from, during an unpleasant event, it is said |
| 39% | EUROS | 5 | How change will come to Iberians |
| 39% | SHERATON | 8 | Chain whose name came from a Boston hotel whose sign was too expensive to remove |
| 39% | QUIP | 4 | Line from Will Rogers |
| 39% | NICHOLAS | 8 | Saint who is said to be the basis of Santa Claus |
| 39% | EVENSOUT | 8 | Comes to be level |
| 39% | YOU | 3 | "If ___ build it, he will come" (line from "Field of Dreams") |
| 39% | UHOH | 4 | "___, Love Comes to Town" (Talking Heads song) |
| 39% | DORITOS | 7 | Brand of tortilla chips believed to have been invented in Mexico, but actually came from California |
| 39% | CIFICAPNREHTRON | 15 | Line from Seattle to Chicago |
| 38% | HOHO | 4 | Sound of laughter from Santa Claus: 2 wds. |