| LASTCHRISTMAS | Holiday standard with the line "But the very next day you gave it away" |
| HEART | *"It" in "...but the very next day you gave it away" |
| SORARE | Jimmy Dorsey standard with the line "You're like the fragrance of blossoms fair" |
| NEED | "We ___ a Little Christmas" (holiday standard originally from "Mame") |
| CAT | Beast that came back the very next day |
| NONEOTHER | 25's first on throne - different but the very same (4,5) |
| XML | Web annotation system that's basically an eXtensible Markup Language (whoops, guess I gave it away s |
| TOLD | Gave it away |
| TAKEN | 2008 movie with the line: "...but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you" |
| LEONARDCOHEN | Writer of a song featured in "Shrek" with the line, "But you don't really care for music, do you?" |
| REHAB | 2006 song with the line "But I know it don't come in a shot glass" |
| AFOREFFORT | "You might have failed, but you gave it your best!" |
| CIRCLE | Witch holds the line - but it goes back to where it started! (6) |
| PEN | "The very next blessing Mary had, it was the blessing of ten:/To think that her Son, Jesus, could write without a -" (3) |
| SIMONNEMEC | This Devils D-man, chosen with the very next pick, also hails from Slovakia |
| ENVISAGED | I had it in mind that you gave it in a snide manner (9) |
| VAGUE | You gave it in such a way that it wasn't precise |
| TRAMPOLINE | The hobo has nothing on the line but a jumper perhaps |
| POE | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| ROMEO | Deliverer of the line: "But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" |
