| BRUSSELSSPROUTS | Vegetables traditionally eaten as part of a Christmas lunch or dinner (8,7) |
| TRIMMINGS | Decorations, garlands, paper chains, tinsel etc; or, bread sauce, cranberry jelly, gravy, honey-roasted parsnips, sausages in bacon and other accompaniments to a Christmas lunch or other meal (9) |
| CREAM | Butterfat in milk, traditionally eaten as an accompaniment to puddings; its off-white or pale-yellow colour; or, the choice or best part (5) |
| ORTOLAN | A type of bunting traditionally eaten as a delicacy (7) |
| MOCHI | A chewy rice cake in Japanese cookery traditionally eaten as a dessert (5) |
| NEEPS | Vegetables traditionally served with tatties to accompany haggis as the main course of a Burns supper |
| MUSHYPEAS | Pureed vegetables, traditionally served with fish and chips (5,4) |
| THROUGHTHEWOODS | Part of a Christmas song route |
| EGGROLL | US version of a Chinese-style snack, eaten as part of dim sum (3,4) |
| TOURTIERE | A meat pie eaten as part of the Christmas reveillon in Canada (9) |
| SCONE | Quick bread eaten as part of a cream tea which traditionally should be split in half and spread with |
| LAVER | Porphyra seaweed eaten as part of a traditional Welsh breakfast (5) |
| SCONES | Cakes eaten as part of cream teas (6) |
| GREMLINS | 1984 American black comedy horror film in which a small furry creature is purchased as part of a Christmas present |
| STUFFING | Scoffing too much in part of a Christmas dinner (8) |
| ONION | Bulb vegetable traditionally strung together with others in a quantity known as a rope (5) |
| MEAL | Director Brooks eats a lunch or dinner (4) |
| LETITSNOW | Part of a Christmas refrain written in 1945 |
| MAST | The upright part of a Christmas tree (4) |
| SCENES | Heartlessly deprives of food in parts of A Christmas Carol (6) |
