| Text | Length |
| Powdery carbon | 14 |
| Pipe sullier | 12 |
| Pipe buildup | 12 |
| Lampblack source | 16 |
| It might soil Santa | 19 |
| Flue symptom | 12 |
| Flue substance | 14 |
| Flue problem | 12 |
| Flue blackener | 14 |
| Flue befouler | 13 |
| Fireplace problem | 17 |
| Fine, black stuff | 17 |
| Dirt on Santa | 13 |
| Diesel discharge | 16 |
| Coke product? | 13 |
| Chimney substance | 17 |
| Chimney stuffing | 16 |
| Chimney problem | 15 |
| Chimney grit | 12 |
| Chimney deposit | 15 |
| Chimney black | 13 |
| Charcoal dust | 13 |
| Carbon residue | 14 |
| Carbon coating | 14 |
| Burnt-coal residue | 18 |
| Black powder | 12 |
| Chimney sweeps | 14 |
| Truth, old-style | 16 |
| Reality, old-style | 18 |
| Truth, archaically | 18 |
| Truth of old | 13 |
| Comfort the pain | 16 |
| Bring comfort to | 16 |
| Provide comfort to | 18 |
| Opposite of fluster | 19 |
| Act like aloe | 13 |
| Bring relief to | 15 |
| Unruffle feathers | 17 |
| Relieve with balm | 17 |
| Provide relief to | 17 |
| Offer comfort to | 16 |
| Nurse or yes man | 16 |
| Lozenges, e.g. | 14 |
| Like lullabies | 14 |
| Job for an oracle | 17 |
| More fuliginous | 15 |
| More blackened | 14 |
| Most fuliginous | 15 |
| Blackens, in a way | 18 |
| Smudges, in a way | 17 |
| Smoke residues | 14 |
| Grimy deposits | 14 |
| Chimney offshoots | 17 |
| Chimney grimes | 14 |
| Air pollutants | 14 |
| Black, as a chimney | 19 |
| Like smokestacks | 16 |
| Like a smokestack | 17 |
| Like a chimney | 14 |
| Soiled, in a way | 16 |
| Like sweep hands? | 17 |
| Like some terns | 15 |
| Like most chimneys | 18 |
| Like many flues | 15 |
| Like many chimneys | 18 |
| Like chimney sweeps | 19 |
| Like a sweep | 12 |
| Like a chimney flue | 19 |
| In need of a sweep | 18 |
| Flue-stricken? | 14 |
| Coated with carbon | 18 |
| Black, as a flue | 16 |
| Certain seabird | 15 |
| Political payoff | 16 |
| Soak (up), as gravy | 19 |
| Use a sponge | 12 |
| Soak up, as gravy | 17 |
| Bread, at times | 15 |
| Absorb, as gravy | 16 |
| Bread for dipping | 17 |
| Biscuit, to gravy | 17 |
| It aims to appease | 18 |
| Dipper's bread | 18 |
| Soak with liquid | 16 |
| Pacifying gesture | 17 |
| Make soaking wet | 16 |
| Gravy absorber | 14 |
| Get the gravy | 13 |
| Favor-currying gift | 19 |
| Bread at a meal | 15 |
| Bread as a blotter | 18 |
| Word with milk | 14 |
| Tidbit for Cerberus | 19 |
| Soak up gravy | 13 |
| Secondary reward | 16 |
| Propitiatory gift | 17 |
| Propitiatory bribe | 18 |
| Political pacifier | 18 |
| Palm grease? | 12 |
| One use for bread | 17 |
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