| FLOCKS | What the shepherds watched by night, all seated on the ground |
| ONLATE | Like TV shows watched by night owls |
| COSTUMEDRAMA | What the shepherd wore for scene in The Nativity play (7,5) |
| BLEAT | What the shepherd heard, perhaps |
| ISBRIGHT | A line from Silent Night, "All is calm, All _ _" (2,6) |
| NOON | Morning ___ and night (all the time) |
| CLAN | Family coming late at night, all kicking off (4) |
| SECONDO | The player seated on the left side of a large piano stool |
| SCABS | Lawyer indicated regressive graduate seated on the left shouldn't be picked |
| HELVETIA | Female personification of Switzerland, appearing seated on the country's stamps from 1854 (8) |
| SEDATES | Calms one who may be seated on the Sabbath (7) |
| BESTRIDE | Seated on the greatest horse (8) |
| EWES | Shepherds watched these when the angel of the Lord came down. (4) |
| YELLOWBRICKROAD | Elton John album with Saturday Night's All Right for fighting, Bennie and the Jets and Candle in the Wind (6,5,4) |
| GOODWILL | As two words, a phrase from the Biblical annunciation to the shepherds in the Nativity for amity, kindness or well-wishing; or, as one word in the US, a thrift shop (4,4) |
| FIELDOFVISION | Where shepherds watched their flock by night, as far as one can see (5,2,6) |
| NAHUMTATE | Poet laureate who wrote the words of the Christmas carol While shepherds watched their flocks (5.4) |
| GABRIEL | Angel who appears in the While Shepherds Watched carol (7) |
| SATURN | The god of agriculture was seated on a water heater |
| ENTS | In Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, creatures known as the Shepherds of the Trees (4) |