| MONTGOMERYWARD | American department store which published the 1939 booklet in which Rudolph the Reindeer first appeared |
| LONGMAN | Company which published the first edition of Roget's Thesaurus in 1852 |
| SEARS | Department store which was known for its catalogues |
| GREYAREAS | No definite rules apply in these - ex-Foreign Secretary at first argues referring to withdrawn appea |
| HYMNBOOK | A sexist might pronounce Practical Railway Engineering to be one; it's where the blessed lines appea |
| REDNOSE | Rudolph the Reindeer's distinguishing feature (3,4) |
| GLOWS | Shines like Rudolph the Reindeer's nose |
| RUDOLFH | Seasonal character who first appeared in a 1939 booklet by Robert L. May (7) |
| RUDOLPH | Red-nosed reindeer created by Robert Lewis May in a 1939 booklet (7) |
| PADS | Starts to purchase American department store cricket gear (4) |
| MYTH | Series of computer games, the first of which, published in 1997, was subtitled The Fallen Lords |
| SVEN | What is the name of the reindeer in the Frozen films? (4) |
| DETRACTED | Took away the booklet in the act |
| HARRODS | London's landmark store, which was bought by the Qatari royal family (7) |
| HEIGHT | The average ___ of the reindeer is between 1.2m and 1.5m to the shoulder. |
| THESPECTATOR | Magazine which published its 10,000th issue in 2020 |
| EASTHAMPTON | Ina Garten's famous Barefoot Contessa store, which operated from 1978 to 2003, was located in this Long Island town |
| CANONGATE | Edinburgh publishing firm which published Booker Prize Winner 'Life of Pi' (9) |
| DASHER | Plunger in a butter churn; boards of an ice hockey rink; or, one of the reindeer in Clement Clarke Moore's poem A Visit from St . Nicholas (6) |
| JONATHANGROFF | Mindhunter star who voiced Kristoff (and Sven the reindeer) in Frozen II: 2 wds. |
