| Like a chimney sweep's clothes | 34 |
| Like a blackened chimney | 24 |
| What Santa gets for climbing down the chimney? | 46 |
| Like used fire irons | 20 |
| Like sweep hands? | 17 |
| Like some terns | 15 |
| Like Santa's suit on December 26 | 36 |
| Like Santa's suit on Christmas morning | 42 |
| Like Santa's suit on Christmas Day | 38 |
| Like Santa's suit after going through the chimney | 53 |
| Like Santa's suit | 21 |
| Like Santa's boots | 22 |
| Like Santa on Christmas Eve? | 28 |
| Like Santa on Christmas Eve, probably | 37 |
| Like Santa after his rounds, perhaps | 36 |
| Like Santa after his rounds, maybe | 34 |
| Like Santa after a delivery | 27 |
| Like most chimneys | 18 |
| Like many flues | 15 |
| Like many chimneys | 18 |
| Like chimney sweeps | 19 |
| Like a sweep's uniform | 26 |
| Like a sweep | 12 |
| Like a flue | 11 |
| Like a dirty chimney | 20 |
| Like a chimney flue | 19 |
| In need of a sweep | 18 |
| Fresh from the chimney, perhaps | 31 |
| Flue-stricken? | 14 |
| Coated with carbon | 18 |
| Chimney sweep's condition | 29 |
| Blackish | 8 |
| Blackened, as a chimney | 23 |
| Black, as a flue | 16 |
| Admonition to chimney sweeps about not getting anyone else dirty? | 65 |
| Certain seabird | 15 |
| Soak (up) | 9 |
| Political payoff | 16 |
| Conciliatory offering | 21 |
| Pacifier | 8 |
| Conciliatory gesture | 20 |
| Placebo | 7 |
| Absorb, with "up" | 27 |
| Soak (up), as gravy | 19 |
| Bread for dipping, e.g. | 23 |
| Something given to pacify | 25 |
| Douceur | 7 |
| Dip, as bread in gravy | 22 |
| Concession | 10 |
| Use a sponge | 12 |
| Soak up, as gravy | 17 |
| Bread, at times | 15 |
| Absorb, as gravy | 16 |
| Bread for dipping | 17 |
| Biscuit, to gravy | 17 |
| Sponge (up) | 11 |
| Something for Cerberus | 22 |
| It aims to appease | 18 |
| Dunk, as bread in gravy | 23 |
| Dipper's bread | 18 |
| Bread for a stew, e.g. | 22 |
| Be all wet | 10 |
| Soaked biscuit, e.g. | 20 |
| Soak with liquid | 16 |
| Piece of food for dipping | 25 |
| Pacifying gesture | 17 |
| One way to get the gravy | 24 |
| Mollifying concession | 21 |
| Make soaking wet | 16 |
| Gravy absorber | 14 |
| Get the gravy | 13 |
| Food eaten with gravy | 21 |
| Favor-currying gift | 19 |
| Bread at a meal | 15 |
| Bread as a blotter | 18 |
| Apply bread to gravy | 20 |
| Work-method initials | 20 |
| Word with milk | 14 |
| Towel (up) | 10 |
| Tidbit for Cerberus | 19 |
| The way things are usually done, for short | 42 |
| The way it's always done, for short | 39 |
| Soak up gravy | 13 |
| Singing voice: Abbr. | 20 |
| Secondary reward | 16 |
| Sample sauce with bread | 23 |
| Propitiatory present | 20 |
| Propitiatory gift | 17 |
| Propitiatory bribe | 18 |
| Political pacifier | 18 |
| Petty bribe | 11 |
| Palm grease? | 12 |
| One use for bread | 17 |
| Offering of appeasement | 23 |
| Norm, to a G.I. | 15 |
| Morsel for dipping | 18 |
| Met performer: Abbr. | 20 |
| Food for dunking | 16 |
| Eat soup with bread | 19 |
| Dipped bread | 12 |