| Keats's "___ of St. Mark" | 39 |
| Keats's "___ of St. Agnes" | 40 |
| Keat's "The _____ of St. Agnes" | 45 |
| July 3 e.g. | 12 |
| Joanne's Oscar role | 23 |
| Joanne Woodward role | 20 |
| Jan Brady portrayer ___ Plumb | 29 |
| It comes before a holiday | 25 |
| Ill-fated fruit picker | 22 |
| Iconic Anne Baxter role | 23 |
| Humans' progenitor | 22 |
| Holiday starter | 15 |
| Holiday predecessor | 19 |
| Holiday minus one | 17 |
| Holiday kickoff | 15 |
| Holiday herald | 14 |
| Her name means ''life'' in Hebrew | 49 |
| Halloween, for one | 18 |
| Grammy winner for "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" | 49 |
| Gift-wrapping time, for many | 28 |
| Genesis mother | 14 |
| Genesis lady | 12 |
| Genesis evictee | 15 |
| Garden dweller of note | 22 |
| Fruit sampler | 13 |
| French writer Curie | 19 |
| Forbidden fruit partaker | 24 |
| First woman on Earth | 20 |
| First victim of temptation | 26 |
| First transplant recipient | 26 |
| First sinner | 12 |
| First palindrome | 16 |
| First of a gender | 17 |
| First mother? | 13 |
| First lady, no kidding | 22 |
| First fruit-picker | 18 |
| First female | 12 |
| First biter | 11 |
| First apple polisher? | 21 |
| Figurative brink | 16 |
| Fig-leafed female | 17 |
| Female rapper with the 2002 hit "Gangsta Lovin'" | 62 |
| Fall starter? | 13 |
| Fall guy's partner? | 23 |
| Eponymous UPN sitcom | 20 |
| Eponymous UPN series | 20 |
| Ensler who wrote “The Vagina Monologues” | 48 |
| Ensler of "The Good Body" | 35 |
| Enos's grandmother | 22 |
| Emerger from Adam's rib | 27 |
| Eden's second resident | 26 |
| Eden name | 9 |
| Eden mother | 11 |
| Eden evacuee | 12 |
| Early seducee | 13 |
| Early pome picker | 17 |
| Early pome fancier | 18 |
| Early fruit sampler | 19 |
| Early fig-leaf wearer | 21 |
| Diarist in a Twain story | 24 |
| December 24th, for instance | 27 |
| December 24th, e.g. | 19 |
| December 24th or 31st | 21 |
| December 24, for one | 20 |
| December 24, for example | 24 |
| Dec. 24, for one | 16 |
| Dec. 24 | 7 |
| Day's end: Abbr. | 20 |
| Day when performance anxiety might kick in | 42 |
| Day before an important date | 28 |
| Day before a big event | 22 |
| Daughter of the Curies | 22 |
| Daughter of ___ | 15 |
| Dark time, briefly | 18 |
| Curie | 5 |
| Creation from a rib | 19 |
| Costal byproduct | 16 |
| Close of the day | 16 |
| Christmas forerunner | 20 |
| Certain threshold | 17 |
| Celebratory night | 17 |
| Celebration time, often | 23 |
| Celebration before the celebration? | 35 |
| Cain's raiser | 17 |
| Cain raiser, really | 19 |
| Cain and Abel's mother | 26 |
| Cain and Abel's mom | 23 |
| Busy travel day, typically | 26 |
| Busy travel day, often | 22 |
| Busy travel day, maybe | 22 |
| Brink of an event | 17 |
| Brink of a holiday | 18 |
| Big-day preceder | 16 |
| Biding time? | 12 |
| Biblical woman whose name means "life" | 48 |
| Biblical fruit sampler | 22 |
| Before time | 11 |
| Baxter role: 1950 | 17 |
| Baxter role in 1950 | 19 |
| Baxter role | 11 |