| SILENTNIGHT | Christmas favourite thing: tinsel for decorating (6, 5) |
| PAINTS | Dad can get tins, perhaps, for decorating (6) |
| SCHEME | Systematic plan; a secret plot; an astrological diagram; or, a combination of colours in interior decorating (6) |
| PAINTROLLER | Tool for decorating walls or ceilings... (5,6) |
| SANTA | And 42 A class aunt turns out a Christmas favourite (5,5) |
| MINCEPIE | Eye-rhyme for Christmas favourite (5,3) |
| POMPON | From the Old French for "knot of ribbons", a tufted ball or bobble of silk or wool; a cluster of tinsel for cheerleading; or, a globe-like flower of a chrysanthemum or dahlia (6) |
| PEARL | Colour of tinsel for body of Editor salmon fly (5) |
| ENLIST | Obtain tinsel for decoration (6) |
| PUPPET | Young dog, favourite thing kept on a string? (6) |
| PETITE | Small or favourite thing maiden missed (6) |
| CARPET | Vehicle with favourite thing lining floor? (6) |
| TURKEY | Christmas favourite, failure (6) |
| ENLISTS | Joins up with tawdry tinsel for Santa's head (7) |
| PETROLEUM | Oil a favourite thing played with hesitation (9) |
| APPLESTRUDEL | Austrian dessert featured in the song My Favourite Things (5,7) |
| MACAULAY | Star of 1990 Christmas favourite Home Alone, -------- Culkin (8) |
| DINGDONG | Christmas favourite, almighty drunken fight? (4,4,7,2,4) |
| MERRILY | Christmas favourite, almighty drunken fight? (4,4,7,2,4) |
| ONHIGH | Christmas favourite, almighty drunken fight? (4,4,7,2,4) |
