| Country guitar player, e.g. | 27 |
| Sounding like a bowstring | 25 |
| Southerner's giveaways | 26 |
| Sherwood Forest sounds | 22 |
| Plays the guitar, in a way | 26 |
| Evidence of some accents | 24 |
| Elements of some accents | 24 |
| Like some Nashville vocals | 26 |
| Like some country music | 23 |
| Like Duane Eddy's guitar | 28 |
| "Jabberwocky" start | 29 |
| Start of a Christmas poem | 25 |
| "__ the night ..." | 28 |
| Start of a Christmas classic | 28 |
| Start of a C. Moore poem | 24 |
| Clement Moore poem opener | 25 |
| Start of a Christmas story | 26 |
| Christmas poem starter | 22 |
| First word of a Carroll work | 28 |
| Christmas classic opening | 25 |
| A Clement Moore opener | 22 |
| "___ the night ..." | 29 |
| 'Jabberwocky' starter | 29 |
| '-- brillig ...' | 24 |
| Yuletide verse starter | 22 |
| Yuletide verse beginning | 24 |
| Start of a Yuletide reading | 27 |
| Start of a yule reading | 23 |
| Start of a well-known poem | 26 |
| Start of a Carroll work | 23 |
| Start of a C. Moore classic | 27 |
| Start for a Moore poem | 22 |
| Jabberwocky beginning | 24 |
| First word of Xmas poem | 23 |
| First word of Moore poem | 24 |
| First word of a seasonal poem | 29 |
| Famous yuletide poem starter | 28 |
| Clement C. Moore's opener | 29 |
| Clement C. Moore opening | 24 |
| Classic Christmas opener | 24 |
| Christmas verse starter | 23 |
| Christmas verse opener | 22 |
| Christmas poem opening | 22 |
| "___ ever thus" | 25 |
| "___ brillig ..." | 27 |
| '-- ever thus' | 22 |
| '-- brillig, and ...' | 29 |
| '-- brillig, ...' | 25 |
| It was not: Contraction | 23 |
| Start of a January lament | 25 |
| 1986 PGA Championship winner | 28 |
| 1986 PGA Player of the Year | 27 |
| AVENUE GOING EAST OR WEST | 25 |
| Low budget, as an operation | 27 |
| Make a slight adjustment to | 27 |
| Make a minor adjustment to | 26 |
| Make small adjustments to | 25 |
| Make small adjustments in | 25 |
| Make slight alterations | 23 |
| Change a bit for the better | 27 |
| Made some small changes to | 26 |
| Made a small adjustment | 23 |
| Making small adjustments in | 27 |
| Makes minor adjustments to | 26 |
| Makes subtle changes to | 23 |
| Overly precious, to a Brit | 26 |
| Oh-so-quaint, in England | 24 |
| Affectedly quaint, to a Brit | 28 |
| Small bird's sound | 22 |
| Overly precious, to a Briton | 28 |
| Oh-so-dainty, in Devon | 22 |
| Like Wes Anderson movies | 24 |
| Hardly macho, in Manchester | 27 |
| Affectedly quaint, in England | 29 |
| Affectedly dainty, to Brits | 27 |
| Affectedly dainty, to a Brit | 28 |
| Affectedly dainty, in Dover | 27 |
| Affectedly dainty, in Derby | 27 |
| A bit too-too, to a Brit | 24 |
| Preppy's fabric, e.g. | 25 |
| Tammany Hall "boss" | 29 |
| Subject for Thomas Nast | 23 |
| River, politician or cloth | 26 |
| Professorial material? | 22 |
| Professor's suit material | 29 |
| Like some preppy jackets | 24 |
| Coarse woolen coat material | 27 |
| "Ring" leader | 23 |
| Professorial attire, perhaps | 28 |
| More outdoorsy, as fashion | 26 |
| Professorish news anchor? | 25 |
| One of an identical pair | 24 |
| Looking-glass land denizen | 26 |
| Alice's entertainer | 23 |
| Lures, Pied Piper style | 23 |
| Circular cloth of a kind | 24 |
| English-Scottish waterway | 25 |
| Some professorial attire | 24 |
| Houndstooth and herringbone | 27 |
| Outdoorsy in taste or habits | 28 |