'My shooter isn't pewter, it's really a steelie' writer? |
'Don't ask me' |
'East of Eden' brother |
'Get a move on!' |
'If you ask me,' online |
'London Fields' author Martin |
'Strike the ___ and join the chorus...' |
'The Gift of the Magi' feature |
'___ the blazing Yule before us...' |
A soil scientist may measure it |
Alley ___ |
Ayatollah Khamenei, e.g |
Ballpark figure |
Ballpark figure |
Ballpark figure |
Becomes chronic |
Big bone of a hide-and-seek player? |
Bits of mistletoe |
Blues great John Lee |
Brentwood neighbor |
Broadway illuminator |
Bruno Mars song that reached #1 in 2011 |
Bustling activity |
Busy co. in the pre-Christmas season |
Canadian cagers |
Chain with MinuteClinic facilities |
Concord |
Cooks' covers |
Cruel practice |
Declares void |
Deputy |
Descartes conclusion |
End of the line, often |
Exchange |
Fearsome fate |
Fit for a noble |
Flower for a fleet admiral? |
Friend of Picasso and Hemingway |
Future fish |
Get a better car, perhaps |
Gets a homer |
Gets clean |
Gift of the Magi, added phonetically to the theme answers |
Gingerbread bit |
Go by |
Had a bite, perhaps |
Hail fellow? |
Have some chips, say |
Heart |
Hen or heifer |
Hide evidence of peeking at a gift, perhaps |
Hitching goal |
In the dark |
Island west of Mykonos |
Isn't in the sticks? |
It may be about a foot |
Item for Cupid |
Jam sound |
Kanye creation |
Kicks off |
Knight's backers |
Letters for a sellout |
Like hush puppies |
Like many vaudeville comics |
Lions and Tigers and Bears |
Lowdown |
Lowly laborers |
Make wider |
Makes a bow |
Mariah Carey's 'Christmas Time Is in the ___ Again' |
Matador motivator |
Menacing words |
Modernizes, as a factory |
Muse often depicted holding a globe |
Name on a famed B-29 |
Nation smaller than Albuquerque |
Of the gland that secretes epinephrine |
Overdue amount |
Pal of Jerry and George |
Parallel action |
Part of a Santa suit |
Parti-colored puss |
Particular time |
Paucity |
Person attacking where the castle walls meet? |
Person shooting footage for a real estate ad? |
Ping producer |
Pretty good grade |
Price of opera performances |
Programmer's creation, for short |
Protective wall |
Quite |
Quotidian |
Range extending through seven countries |
Rangers goalie Lundqvist |
Refrain bit |
Respecting |
Roger of 'Cheers' |
Sales force |
Sales receipts |
Salty solution |
Santa descriptor |
Scottish estate owners |
Security guard in a packing plant? |
Sharp change of direction |
Showed extreme disrespect toward |
Silver place |
Sixths of an inch |
Slanted in a newspaper: Abbr |
Small flap |
Source of bucks |
Splice |
Starchy plant |
Steamy |
Stubbornly espousing |
Surfeit with sweetness |
Syrup sources |
Textile factory sights |
The sun? |
Thin layer |
Upstairs window designed to catch burglars? |
Used 79-Down |
Veep's boss |
Vernal mo |
Walk |
Walk-___ (nonspeaking roles) |
Warren's wife since 1992 |
Warts and wens |
Where Hillary and Bill met |
Word with candy or drum |
Work a caramel |
Works in a teddy bear factory |
You, to Juergen |
Youngster |
Zero |
Zest |
___ a time |
___ Aviv |