| LITHUANIA | Country in which Holy Meal (on Christmas Eve) is the most important event of the year |
| ODD | Number following Eve is the opposite of this (3) |
| AUSTRALIAN | ___ Open first annual Grand Slam tennis event of the year and the largest annual sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere |
| NB | Port Charles' fundraising event of the year (init.) |
| OPERA | Christmas Eve is one by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-korsakov |
| OKLAHOMA | Corral by which holy man keeps house in state (8) |
| EUCHARIST | Holy meal when the curate uses his recipe? (9) |
| THELORDSSUPPER | She slurped port -inappropriate for a holy meal (3,5,6) |
| HYMN | With which holy men express their souls? (4) |
| ANNAL | A register of the events of the year by Anne and Albert |
| ALMANAC | Calendar that gives information about events of the year (7) |
| EVE | Dec. 24 is Christmas ___ (3) |
| FROISSART | Medieval historian whose Chronicles chart the events of the Hundred Years' War including the accession of Edward III, the Battle of Crecy and the Peasants' Revolt (9) |
| BILBO | Hobbit who found the One Ring, setting in motion the events of The Lord of the Rings |
| SAFETY | Rural women bear many burdens, but which is the most important and difficult in terms of providing shelter? (6) |
| ATWORST | In the event of the utmost calamity a couple are reportedly stumped (2,5) |
| MEAL | Breakfast is the most important one of the day, some say |
| HABITAT | The primary reason that species become extinct is _______ loss, so reducing this loss is the most important priority for conservation (7) |
| INSULIN | What is the most important product of the pancreas? (7) |
| TIBET | The Brahmaputra is the most important river of this moutain nation |
