| EGAN | "A Visit from the Goon Squad" writer Jennifer |
| TIME | Metaphorical "goon" in Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" |
| GOON | Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the ___ Squad" |
| FIXEDASSET | Consequence of a visit from the Maytag repairman? |
| PAPAL | Like a visit from the Bishop of Rome |
| THEDAYTHEEARTHSTOODSTILL | Sci-fl film of 1951 about a visit from the alien Klaatu (3,3,3,5,5,5) |
| BOOK | From the Old English for "beech", a bibliophilic item printed with a story, poem etc, such as A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Chimes, Little Women or A Visit from St. Nicholas (4) |
| RAID | Surprise visit from the vice squad |
| REINDEER | Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet ... one of the eight animals described in the poem A Visit from St Nicholas or The Night Before Christmas (8) |
| BEFORE | The first line of the 1823 poem A Visit From St Nicholas, "Twas the night _ Christmas" (6) |
| DANCER | The second reindeer mentioned in the poem A Visit from St Nicholas |
| FLYBY | Visit from the Blue Angels, say |
| BLESSEDEVENT | Visit from the stork |
| LIVEBIRTHOFACHILD | Visit from the stork |
| FLYOVER | Pay quick visit from the States for bridge? |
| BREAK | If a person received a visit from Lady Luck as hoped, he finally caught a ___ |
| SUGARPLUM | Mentioned in A Visit from St. Nicholas, a crystallised damsonlike fruit, or; a spiced fruit-and-nut confection resembling such (5,4) |
| BAILIFF | These two troublemakers come from Ilfracombe, and if they get into more trouble they will be getting a visit from a law-enforcement officer (7) |
| WITHCARE | 'The stockings were hung by the chimney ___ ___' (A Visit from St. Nicholas, Clement Clarke Moore) (4,4) |
| 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) |
