| 100% | LIST | 4 | What Santa's making and double-checking, in song |
| 60% | LIST | 4 | What Santa's making (and checking twice) |
| 56% | LIST | 4 | What Santa makes and checks twice |
| 48% | LISTS | 5 | What Santa Claus makes and gets |
| 48% | LIST | 4 | What Santa checks twice to see who's naughty and nice |
| 46% | ALIST | 5 | "He's making ___ and checking it twice" (Christmas song line): 2 wds. |
| 46% | TOYS | 4 | What elves make in Santa's workshop |
| 45% | BACKSTREETS | 11 | Springsteen song, and what's contained in the circles |
| 44% | COMES | 5 | What's between here and the sun, in song? |
| 44% | LISTS | 5 | What Santa makes for nice children and naughty children |
| 42% | ACTUP | 5 | Make mischief, and a hint to what's found in 3-, 5-, 7-, 34- and 38-Down |
| 42% | LIST | 4 | What Santa double-checks |
| 40% | ALIST | 5 | "He's making ___ and checking ..." |
| 40% | ALIST | 5 | “He’s making ___ and checking ...” |
| 39% | RADIOEDIT | 9 | Shortened version of a pop song ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 39% | CIRCLEBACK | 10 | Return to a subject in conversation, and what this puzzle's author did to make the examples stand out |
| 39% | SHAKER | 6 | What "salt" has been put in to make 1-Across and 6-Down? |
| 39% | MIDDLEEAR | 9 | Anvil setting, and what the long song titles have in common |
| 39% | TOYS | 4 | What your elves make in the board game "Santa's Workshop" |
| 39% | COAL | 4 | What Santa leaves in a naughty kid's stocking |
| 39% | COAL | 4 | What Santa puts in a naughty kid's stocking |
| 38% | LIST | 4 | Santa checks his twice, in song |
| 38% | BREAKINGTHEBANK | 15 | Making a killing in Vegas ... or what happens in 17-, 28- and 47-Across |
| 38% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 38% | USSR | 4 | Where "Moscow girls make me sing and shout," in a Beatles song |
| 38% | CANDY | 5 | What Hershey's and Mars make |
| 37% | FORSTARTERS | 11 | "To begin..." and what the theme answers need in order to make sense |
| 37% | ALIST | 5 | "He's making ___ and checking it twice ...": 2 wds. |
| 37% | ALIST | 5 | "He's making ___ and checking it twice ... " (2 wds.) |
| 37% | EFGH | 4 | What I must follow, in a children's song |