| PACKS | Prepares a gift and cards |
| UNDERTHETREE | Where one may find a gift (and a hint to this puzzle's meta) |
| WRAPS | Prepares a gift for giving |
| ENDOW | You give it as a gift and we nod off (5) |
| REPRESENTED | Reed was given a gift and stood for it, too |
| WRAP | Prepare a gift for presenta tion |
| DULWICH | District in London's Southwark, site of a public school founded by Edward Alleyn as the College of God's Gift and of a picture gallery designed by Sir John Soane (7) |
| PLEA | (OBC) "Love to God and all men,/Love for - and gift and sign" (4) |
| BINGOHALL | Place with a caller and cards |
| REDENVELOPE | Traditional Lunar New Year gift . . . and a feature of three answers in this puzzle |
| BREATH | Life's first gift and last whisper, given freely but at times taken for granted - it's the air we inhale and exhale all day long, until it is gone (6) |
| ATONESWITSEND | Stuck a fancy note and cards in post (2,4,4,3) |
| IMPARTS | Little blighter's bearing gift and grants (7) |
| FIGHTER | Order her gift and ring worker (7) |
| ASTERS | Gas fitters dropped off gift and flowers (6) |
| WRAPUP | Prepare gift and finish (4,2) |
| UNWRAPPED | Revealed gift and sounded less than impressed? (9) |
| FIGTREE | Fruit producer exchanged gift and ordered seconds (3,4) |
| REPRESENT | About that gift and what it might stand for ...! |
| FERMOR | Last name of the travel writer who recounted his journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul aged 18 in the books A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water (6) |
