Clues for the word "ELF"
We've had 616 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1639 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 21, 2025.
Definition of elf
- n. - An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks.
- n. - A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
- v. t. - To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.
- pl. - of Elves
Referring Clues
- Little one
- Polar worker
- Keebler character
- Brownie
- Fairy tale creature
- Pointy shoe wearer
- Toymaker, maybe
- North Pole toymaker
- Pixie
- Present wrapper, maybe
- Little toymaker
- Magical being
- ___-child (changeling)
- Yuletide worker
- Little helper
- Pole worker
- "A Midsummer Night's Dream" extra
- Munchkin
- Grimm character
- Seasonal employee?
- North Pole assistant?
- Keebler cookie maker
- "The Lord of the Rings" figure
- Polar helper
- Santa's subordinate
- Tiny toymaker
- Keebler cookiemaker
- Gnome
- Santa's helper
- Wearer of pointy-toed shoes
- North Pole toy maker
- Santa's little helper
- Keebler worker?
- Santa's little helper
- Seasonal worker
- Jolly old ___ (Santa)
- One with a pole position?
- One with pointy-toed shoes
- Polar drudge
- Little green man
- North Pole worker
- ___-locks (tangled hair)
- Keebler baker, supposedly
- 2003 Will Ferrell title role
- North Pole helper
- Trickster
- Keebler baker, in ads
- Middle-earth resident
- Shoemaker's helper, in a fairy tale
- Dobby or Winky, in Harry Potter
- Mischievous tyke
- Kobold
- Aide to Santa
- Tolkien creature
- Will Ferrell title role
- Dungeons & Dragons player option
- Hobbit's friend
- Leprechaun
- Santa's Workshop employee
- Munchkin kin
- Arctic aide
- Very busy worker in December
- Character in a Christmas special, often
- Arctic drudge
- Keebler baker
- North Pole peon
- Keebler commercial character
- Mischievous one
- Keebler cook
- Chips Deluxe baker, in ads
- Subordinate Claus
- One with very little clothing
- Toymaker's assistant
- Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings," e.g.
- Santa assistant
- Ferrell film
- Toon in a Keebler commercial
- Aide to 43-Across
- 2003 Will Ferrell film
- North Pole assistant
- Will Ferrell comedy
- Claus assistant
- Polar peon
- 2003 Will Ferrell movie
- Santa's assistant
- Reindeer feeder?
- "The Santa Clause" extra
- Holiday helper
- Legendary gift-wrapper
- Tiny trickster
- Character in the Harry Potter books
- Shoemaker's helper in a Grimm tale
- Seasonal helper
- Sleigh labor?
- Mischievous kid
- Christmas toymaker
- Pointy-eared sprite
- Extra in "The Polar Express"
- Christmas helper
- 25-Across maker
- "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice ___ Agin)" (#1 hit of 1970)
- Busy December worker
- Sprite
- Shoemaker helper, in a fairy tale
- 2003 film directed by Jon Favreau
- Wannabe dentist Hermey, e.g.
- Keebler's Ernie, e.g.
- Job in "The Santaland Diaries"
- Santa's workshop worker
- Middle-earth inhabitant
- Polar pixie
- Worker in a noted workshop
- Brownie ___ (mascot of the Cleveland Browns)
- Toymaker in Santa's workshop
- Sechs + fünf
- 2003 holiday film
- One of Santa's team
- Wrapper for Santa
- Bit of pole support?
- Small wrapper?
- Tolkien's Legolas, e.g.
- Fantasy sprite
- Santa staffer
- Little help
- Fantasy novel character
- One with a regular pole position?
- Little worker
- Tolkien's Círdan, for one
- Little trickster
- Yule aide
- One in Santa's support group
- 2003 Christmas movie
- Many a "Lord of the Rings" character
- 2003 holiday flick
- North Pole denizen
- Santa Claus aide
- Will Ferrell film of 2003
- North Pole aide
- Wee toymaker
- Arctic assistant
- Gremlin
- Little holiday helper
- Curly-shoe wearer
- Seasonal mall employee
- Folklore being
- Toymaker up north
- Holiday hammerer
- Year-end helper
- Diminutive creature
- Ernie of Keebler, e.g.
- Claus helper
- Yule figure
- Lothlorien extra
- Wearer of pointy footgear
- Dwarflike mischief-maker
- Mischievous little creature
- Title role for Will Ferrell
- Grimm shoemaker
- North Pole underling
- Diminutive creature of folklore
- Seasonal mall worker
- Will Ferrell movie
- Seasonal employee
- Teeny toymaker
- Folklore sprite
- Subordinate Claus?
- Pointy-shoes wearer
- Will Ferrell Christmas flick
- Polar assistant
- "The Polar Express" extra
- Worker with pointy shoes
- Diminutive being
- Keebler worker
- Impish one
- One of Ernie Keebler's crew
- Will Ferrell Christmas comedy
- Claus subordinate
- North pole employee
- Will Ferrell's shortest movie title
- Little help?
- Snap, Crackle or Pop
- Snap, Crackle, or Pop
- Sleigh filler, once a year
- Toymaker of myth
- Keebler employee?
- Tolkien being
- Small toymaker
- Middle-earth dweller
- Pole worker?
- Seasonal sprite
- Little mischief maker
- Will Ferrell holiday comedy
- Santa helper
- Little seasonal helper
- Santa's toymaker
- Pole position holder?
- Workshop sprite
- Will Ferrell holiday movie of 2003
- Will Ferrell movie made into a Broadway musical
- "The Silmarillion" being
- Employee of Santa
- Arctic toymaker
- Keebler employee, in ads
- Wrap artist?
- Fairy
- Santa's 21-Down
- Worker in Santa's workshop
- Little rascal
- Santa, per Moore
- Santas little helper
- 2003 Will Ferrell flick
- "Polar Express" extra
- He wears very little clothing
- Will Ferrell film
- Toy-sized toymaker
- 2003 role for Will Ferrell
- David Sedaris was one in "SantaLand Diaries"
- "___ needs food, badly" (Classic line from the video game Gauntlet)
- Toy shop employee
- North Pole resident, presumably
- Goblin
- Ferrell film of 2003
- Legendary nocturnal worker
- Questor in the video game Gauntlet
- Rice Krispies' Snap, Crackle or Pop
- Figure in Santa's workshop
- Tolkien's Elrond, e.g.
- Sleigh filler
- Pop from Kellogg's, e.g.
- Santa subordinate
- One with a Pole position
- Mischief-maker with pointy shoes
- Impish fairy
- Little troublemaker
- Legolas, for one
- Arctic assistant
- Middle Earth resident
- Toy maker
- Fantasy character
- Pole laborer
- Tolkien's Legolas, for one
- Ernie of Keebler ads
- Pole employee
- Will Ferrell Christmas movie
- Toy-shop employee?
- Polar laborer
- Pixieish one
- Hobgoblin
- Toymaker for Santa
- North Pole pixie
- Fairy relative
- Little being
- Santa's aide
- Puck, e.g.
- Fairy kin
- Little person
- Fairy's cousin
- Brownie, e.g.
- Santa Claus, in the Moore poem
- Renowned toymaker
- Helper in a cold workshop?
- Dungeons & Dragons race
- Grimm tale figure
- Dungeons & Dragons figure
- Assistant to Santa
- Magical mischief-maker
- Pointy-eared being
- Short subject?
- Mischievous fairy
- Holder of a pole position?
- Mischievous sort
- Tolkien's Galadriel, for one
- Species of Tolkien's Arwen Evenstar
- Wee toy maker
- Santa, in Moore's poem
- Pointy-shoe wearer
- North Pole staffer
- Seasonal mall figure
- 2003 Will Ferrell holiday movie
- Impish sort
- Pixieish sort
- Brownie, for one
- Mischief maker
- Reindeer tender?
- Ferrell holiday film
- Rivendell dweller
- Dobby, e.g., in the Harry Potter books
- Keebler's Ernie, for example
- Mischievous pixie
- Top-of-the-world worker
- Hobbit ally
- Longbow shooter of fantasy fiction
- Snap, Crackle or Pop, e.g.
- Holiday help
- Wee gift wrapper
- Hobbit helper
- Diminutive seasonal helper
- Reindeer tender, maybe
- Keebler cookie character
- Cookie company character
- Leprechaun kin
- Hermey of TV's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," e.g.
- "The ___ on the Shelf" (Christmas book sold with a toy)
- Christmas wrapper?
- Assistant way up north
- Prankster with pointy shoes
- Keebler figure
- Galadriel in "The Lord of the Rings," e.g.
- Keebler mascot
- 42-Across helper
- One of Santa's helpers
- Lively little creature
- See 32-Down
- Prankish imaginary being
- December helper
- Small guy with a big role at the North Pole
- Seasonal worker?
- Santa's toy shop employee
- Worker up north?
- Capricious, magical figure
- One with pointy ears
- Fantasy forest friend
- Will Ferrell holiday movie
- Gnome's kin
- Little creature
- Polar toy maker
- Tolkien's Galadriel, e.g.
- Diminutive trickster
- Keebler spokesman
- North Pole resident?
- "The Hobbit" being
- Mischievous creature
- Wee helper
- Puck, for one
- Figure often dressed in green
- Hob
- Little help for the holidays?
- Small, magical creature
- Fairy-tale night worker
- One working hard before the holidays
- Small, playful sort
- Santa, in the Moore poem
- Small prankster
- One of Santa's little helpers
- Helper for Santa
- 2010 hit Broadway musical with the song "Sparklejollytwinklejingley"
- Tolkien race member
- Worker for Santa
- St. Nicholas, in the poem
- See 114-Across
- One on the shelf, in Christmas decor
- Goblin, e.g.
- Little one of folklore
- One of the Noldor, in Tolkien
- Ernest J. Keebler, for one
- Middle Earth dweller
- Middle-earth figure
- One of the four players in "Gauntlet"
- Diminutive folklore creature
- Northern helper
- Polar wee one
- Pointy hat wearer
- Erlking subject
- Legolas of Middle Earth, e.g.
- Christmas cookie shape
- Tiny present-wrapper
- One working for Santa
- One who's a "little" busy in December?
- Ernest J. Keebler, e.g.
- Helper of 73-Across
- Mischievous sprite
- 102 Across being
- Magical entity
- Shelf occupant of kid-lit
- Impish being
- Storied workshop worker
- Santaland worker
- Polar seasonal worker
- One working hard before Christmas
- Movie with Ed Asner as Santa
- Fantasy fiction staple
- Will Ferrell Christmas film
- One with pointy ears and shoes
- Shoemaker's helper in a fairy tale
- Wee mischief-maker
- Any of the Rice Krispies mascots
- Pixieish type
- Wee seasonal employee
- Mall Santa's assistant
- Crackle, e.g.
- Tiny fey sort
- Helper in Santa's workshop
- Ferrell Christmas movie
- Puck
- Dwarf cousin
- Gremlin's kin
- Employee at Santa's workshop
- Will Ferrell movie of 2003
- "The Santaland Diaries" occupation
- Keebler tree-dweller
- Extra in animated Christmas specials
- Sprite seen in hotel foyer
- Bernard, in "The Santa Clause"
- Member of Santa's workshop
- Little helper of Santa
- Dobby, in "Harry Potter"
- Movie where Will Ferrell played Buddy
- Seasonal Will Ferrell movie
- Supernatural being
- Santa's employee, in ads
- North Pole laborer
- ___ on the Shelf (Christmas figure)
- Worker employed by Santa
- The ___ on the Shelf [S]
- Middle Earth being
- Any of Santa's helpers
- Toymaker in the North Pole
- Ronnie James Dio's first band
- Dio's early band
- "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice ___ Agin)"
- North Pole figure
- Sly & The Family Stone "Thank You (Falettin Me Be Mice ___ Agin)"
- One of Dio's early bands, inspired by Tolkien?
- Supernatural creature of folk tales
- Little fellow not depressed, just confused
- Spirit of Michael Faraday
- Rivendell resident
- Mischief-maker in German football team?
- Pixie (able to cobble?)
- Worker in a northern workshop
- Pole toiler
- Workshop worker
- Pixie full of Cockney wellbeing, we hear
- 2003 comedy featuring Peter Dinklage
- The little guy
- Make-believe toymaker
- 2003 Christmas film
- Sprite's kin
- He has a Pole position
- Seasonal wrapper
- Mythical toymaker
- Dweller in Tolkien's Rivendell
- Seasonal mall job
- Long-lived Middle-earth denizen
- Reindeer handler?
- Folklore creature
- Imp
- Cookie baker in the Hollow Tree
- Galadriel of "The Lord of the Rings," for one
- Supernatural creature
- Subordinate to Claus
- Santa's staffer
- 33 Down worker
- "Lord of the Rings" being
- 2003 holiday film starring Will Ferrell as Buddy
- Petite pixie
- Diminutive toymaker
- Tiny toy handler
- Christmas figure who wears a pointy hat
- Pointy-eared dweller in Middle-earth
- Wee toy assembler
- Storied toymaker
- Christmas movie starring Will Ferrell
- Creature similar to a dwarf or a pixie
- Small humanlike being with a pointy hat
- Shelf-sitter of kid-lit
- Santa underling
- Will Ferrell character
- Pixielike
- Seasonal toymaker
- "Santa Claus" role
- "On the shelf" Christmas figure
- Wearer of pointy shoes
- Worker with Santa
- Rivendell regular
- Brownie, in folklore
- Singular 1-Across
- Keebler sprite
- Keebler spokesperson
- Fabled fabricator
- Small wonder of myth
- Sprite you can't drink
- Mall Santa aide
- Worker way up north
- Cobbler's helper
- Seasonal shelf sitter
- Santa's wee one
- Small fairy
- North Pole dweller
- Gift-wrapping creature
- Part of Santa's workshop
- Seasonal worker?
- Legendary seasonal helper
- Toy-making shorty
- Winter toy maker
- Sprite with pointy ears and shoes
- Fairy cousin
- Giant's opposite
- "Lord of the Rings" character
- Christmas being
- Keebler pitchman
- Often pointy-eared figure
- Mythical manufacturer
- ___ on the Shelf (piece of Christmas kitsch)
- Little help?
- One traditionally dressed in red or green
- Shelf resident of kid-lit
- 39-Across underling
- Mall Santa's sidekick
- Santa's worker
- 2003 holiday comedy
- Assistant for Santa
- Title character for Will Ferrell
- High-latitude helper
- Worker under Santa
- Legendary toymaker
- Workshop helper
- Keebler’s Ernie, for one
- Holiday shelf sitter
- Yuletide gift wrapper
- Helper often dressed in Christmas colors
- Famously nonunionized worker
- Immortal Middle-earth dweller
- Worker in a toy workshop
- [Santa] [city at night] [present]
- ELEVEN
- Mall Santa picture taker, perhaps
- Fantasy creature
- Worker on a frozen Pole
- Christmas creature
- Mythical being with pointy ears
- Pop of breakfast fame
- Gnome cousin
- Sort of sprite
- Storied shelf occupant
- Cold pole worker
- Polar present producer
- 2003 Will Ferrell comedy
- Christmas tree figurine, maybe
- Seasonal mall temp
- One with pointy shoes and ears
- Keebler package being
- Storied December shelf dweller
- Sidekick for a mall Santa
- Pointy-eared creature
- Self-centred fathead in a pixie hood!
- Tolkien figure
- Shelf occupant?
- ___ on the Shelf
- Mall Santa photographer
- Will Ferrell at the North Pole
- Helper for Santa Claus
- Helper of Santa
- Movie with the line "Son of a nutcracker!"
- Someone saving Santa a lot of time
- Film in which Will Ferrell wears yellow tights
- Tiny, mischievous being
- Caretaker for Santa's reindeer
- Holiday aide
- Makeup brand
- Fantasy creature with pointy ears
- Night ___ (World of Warcraft creature)
- Pointy-eared fantasy creature
- Pointy-eared D&D creature
- Helper looking up to Santa
- Certain sprite
- Toymaker with a pointy hat
- Pepper Minstix, Shinny Upatree or Sugarplum Mary
- Shoemaker's helper
- One coming up to Santa's knee?
- Graceful D&D creature
- Wee builder of toys
- A Santa-led VIP
- North Pole assistant?
- Pointy-eared toymaker
- Figure in a Grimm story
- 2003 film in which the title character exclaims "Son of a nutcracker!"
- Rivendell resident, in "The Lord of the Rings"
- Mischievous creature of folklore
- "Ella Enchanted" creature
- Pointy-eared, pointy-hatted creature
- Certain workshop worker
- What Michael Faraday had, one imagines
- Will Ferrell holiday film
- Pointy-eared magical creature
- One with pointy ears and pointy shoes
- Tinker Bell's kin
- Mall Santa's associate
- Santa's employee
- Jon Favreau holiday film
- One whose boss laughs a lot
- Inexpensive makeup brand
- Christmas toy maker
- Guy as tall as Santa's waist
- Creature with pointy ears
- Pointy-eared folklore creature
- Small fantasy creature
- Beauty brand whose name stands for three body parts
- Toy-making helper
- Wee sprite
- Fantasy humanoid such as Legolas
- Puckish sort
- Hermey of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," for one
- Worker in a Christmas movie
- Toymaker such as Buddy
- "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear" film
- Santa's sidekick
- Creature that makes toys in Santa's workshop
- Figure on the shelf at Christmas
- 2003 Will Ferrell Christmas movie
- Jolly little helper
- Fey figure of folklore
- "Every ___ and fairy sprite / Hop as light as bird from brier": Shak.
- Pointy-eared inhabitant of Middle-earth
- One with a pole position?
- A little help?
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- Penny Dell Daily - October 08, 2025
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- Mindfood Daily - September 29, 2025
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- Daily American - August 20, 2025
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