Referring Clues

• Christmas ___
• Role in Haydn's "The Creation"
• Planning time
• Matriarch of all matriarchs
• Midsummer ___ (June 23)
• Time in the classifieds
• First mate?
• Morn's opposite
• "The Three Faces of ___"
• Original sinner
• End of the year, e.g.
• St. Agnes's ___ (January 20)
• Figurative brink
• First lady
• Early evictee
• Cain raiser
• Time to look ahead
• Serpent's mark?
• Adam's mate
• Three-faced one of film
• Apple picker
• Snake charmee
• Gloaming
• Adam's madam
• Genesis name
• Plumb of "The Brady Bunch"
• Woman in a garden
• Night of celebration
• Brink
• Big night
• Time before
• Adam's rib, so to speak
• Apple eater of note
• 9-Down resident
• Genesis evictee
• Garden party?
• Night before
• New Year's ___
• Joanne Woodward Oscar-winning role
• Gift-wrapping time, for some
• Time of anticipation
• Second person
• Party time
• She raised Cain
• Threshold
• Eden evictee
• St. Agnes's ___
• Nervous time, maybe
• Member of the first family
• Time of nervousness, perhaps
• Chronological threshold
• Time to prepare
• Start of a race?
• Eden woman
• 12/24 or 12/31
• "The Lady ___" (Henry Fonda film)
• Apple eater
• Start of something big
• Eden exile
• Preceding day
• Holiday preceder
• A 1950 film was "all about" her
• Adam's apple picker
• Forbidden fruit partaker
• Last moment to prepare
• 12/24, e.g.
• "Who's That Girl" rapper
• Playwright Ensler of "The Vagina Monologues"
• 1965 #1 hit "___ of Destruction"
• One raising Cain
• Period of darkening
• First family member
• First mate
• Dark time, briefly
• "Who's That Girl?" rapper
• Party time, maybe
• Title role for Anne Baxter, 1950
• Time to revel, perhaps
• Procrastinator's shopping day, maybe
• Woman's name meaning "life"
• Day's end: Abbr.
• 67-Across figure
• One-named rapper with a self-titled sitcom
• Seth and Abel's mother
• First lady?
• Christmas ___ (when 17-Across planned his attack on Trenton)
• Busy travel day, typically
• Noted apple eater
• Garden figure
• Cusp
• Grandmother of Enoch
• "___ of Destruction," 1965 protest song
• One-named rap star/actress
• Iconic Anne Baxter role
• Allhallows ___
• December 31, e.g.
• Night before a holiday
• Very early exile
• December 24, e.g.
• Consort of 21-Across
• Cain and Abel's mother
• When day is done, briefly
• Walpurgis Night vis-à-vis May Day
• The 31st vis-à-vis the 1st, e.g.
• Wall-E's love in "Wall-E"
• Day before a big event
• Genesis figure
• Biblical apple picker
• Actress Plumb of "The Brady Bunch"
• "Ruff Ryders' First Lady" singer
• Holiday lead-in
• Either of two in December
• Temptation got the better of her
• Actress Arden of "Our Miss Brooks"
• "The Lady ___" (1941 Stanwyck/Fonda film)
• Time to celebrate
• Holiday minus one
• Actress Arden
• Just-prior period
• Noted apple taster
• Time immediately before
• Adam's second wife, according to Jewish folklore
• First apple user?
• Bible's first palindromic name
• Garden lady
• The night before
• Period of anticipation
• Spare rib?
• Party time, for some
• Holiday cusp
• Holiday time
• Mother without a mother
• Holiday harbinger
• After-sunset time
• Day before
• Verge
• Gift wrapping time, for some
• Time to buy last-minute presents
• Exile from Eden
• First offender?
• "Paradise Lost" character
• Portentous period
• Halloween, to All Saints' Day
• Time for celebrating
• Adam's Biblical mate
• Biblical evictee
• Title role in 1950's Best Picture
• Madam Adam
• WALL-E's girlfriend
• Anticipatory time
• Night before Christmas
• Big day lead-in
• "All About ___"
• Time of anticipation, maybe
• Race starter?
• Twelfth Night, vis-à-vis Epiphany
• Ensler of "The Good Body"
• Genesis outcast
• Noted victim of temptation
• "Gotta Man" rapper
• Grandmother of Enos
• Xena's daughter
• Morn's counterpart
• Allhallows ___
• "___-Olution" (2002 rap album)
• Adam's apple source
• Impending time
• First of a gender
• Seth's mother
• Saint Agnes' ___ (January 20)
• Genesis woman
• Apple & ___ (juice brand)
• Big day preceder
• Grammy winner for "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
• In any way
• Rapper on Gwen Stefani's "Rich Girl"
• Wall-E's love interest in "Wall-E"
• Adam and ___
• First mother?
• Adam's wife
• Noted outcast
• "Not a creature was stirring" time
• Biblical outcast
• Portentous night
• Fall starter?
• Mother of Seth
• Dark time
• Night before Christmas, e.g.
• Cain raiser?
• Second person?
• Period before
• Noted temptation victim
• Noted garden dweller
• Garden party
• Day before a holiday
• Holiday precursor
• One in the first generation
• Holiday kickoff
• Abel's mom
• Party time, perhaps
• December 24 or 31
• 40 Down denizen
• Time just before
• Joanne's Oscar role
• Seth's mom
• First wife
• 12/31, e.g.
• New Year's ___
• 12/24, for one
• Preceding night
• December 24th, for instance
• Celebratory night
• Resident of 66 Across
• First sinner
• Preceding period
• "The Three Faces of ___"
• Time before an important event
• Mark of the serpent?
• Serpent's pigeon
• First of one gender
• Apple of 12-Down's eye?
• Victim of temptation
• Three-faced woman of film
• "Not a creature was stirring" time
• Second of all?
• "All About ___"
• Sistine Chapel figure
• Mother of all matriarchs
• Her name means "life" in Hebrew
• Time of preparation
• Joanne Woodward title role
• Morn counterpart
• It comes before a holiday
• Mother of 6-Across
• "The Three Faces of ___"
• First matriarch
• Notable night
• Mrs. Adam
• Portentous time, on a calendar
• Wall-E's love interest
• The apple of Adam's eye
• Preholiday night
• Woodward role in 1957
• Lady of 26-Down
• "The mother of all living"
• She was three-faced?
• Late Christmas shopping time
• Where Adam's apple came from
• Three-faced film heroine
• Pre-crisis period
• Adam's better half
• Name in a Bette Davis film title
• A 1950 movie was all about her
• Wife who had no in-laws
• Mate of a famous gardener
• Holiday forerunner
• Day before a big day
• Famous first mate
• Twilight
• Rapper with a self-named sitcom
• One who raised Cain
• Mark of the serpent
• Genesis mother
• Time before anything
• Joanne Woodward role
• Night for celebration
• Joanne Woodward role(s)?
• Second of all
• Woodward's Oscar-winning role
• When the Kol Nidre is recited, vis-à-vis Yom Kippur
• Day of anticipation
• 1950 Anne Baxter title role
• December 24, for example
• Woman who raised Cain
• The night before Christmas, e.g.
• Garden matriarch
• Dec. 24, for one
• Woman with three faces
• "The Three Faces of ___": 1957 film
• Holiday prelude
• Night of anticipation
• "The Three Faces of ___" (1957)
• Famous woman in a famous garden
• Celebratory time
• Eden dweller
• December 24th, e.g.
• Forbidden fruit figure
• Night before the big day
• Role in the first act of "The Apple Tree"
• Mother of 82 Across
• Genesis exile
• Pre-holiday day
• Apple pioneer?
• Actress Arden or a lady from a garden
• Time to get ready
• Forbidden fruit sampler
• Pixar robot with a female voice
• Dec. 24, e.g.
• Leading lady?
• Woman in Eden
• Wife without in-laws
• Her name means "life" in Hebrew
• Adam's partner
• "The Three Faces of ___": 1957 film
• "Madam, I'm Adam" addressee
• Early exile
• Palindromic time
• Sixth-day creation
• Garden evictee
• Arden of old Hollywood
• Her son fled to 89 Down
• See 1 Across
• Adam’s apple source
• "WALL-E" love interest
• She raised 5-Across
• Garden dweller of note
• "Gangsta Lovin'" rapper
• Word after Christmas and New Year's
• Nightfall, to Tennyson
• Poetic evening
• Early gardener?
• The day before the big day
• Sistine Chapel ceiling figure
• The first to hear "Madam, I'm Adam"
• There's a film all about her?
• Woman without a mother
• Poetic twilight
• Big-day preceder
• First woman
• Time before Christmas or destruction
• Time for celebration
• Apple sampler
• Eden's second resident
• Second person in the Bible
• Apple of Adam's eye
• Gal from the night before?
• Preparatory time
• Mate of 41-Across
• First name
• 2-Down's mom
• Prior night
• Leading lady
• Cain's mother
• Dec. 31, for one
• Serpent's victim
• Apple taster
• Time of planning
• Forbidden fruit taster
• Christmas forerunner
• Raiser of Cain
• Abel's mother
• December 24, for one
• Time for preparation
• Time for planning
• Eden name
• Garden resident
• Mother of 24-Down
• Previous night
• 12-Across' mate
• Cain's mom
• Enos' granny
• Mate of 37-Across
• 2-Down's companion
• Mom of 51-Across
• 'Gotta Man' rapper
• 'Gotta Man rapper'
• 'Gotta Man' rapper
• Early gardener
• Cain's raiser
• First female
• Partner of 40-Down
• Cain and Abel's mom
• Eden mother
• Eden figure
• Fall female
• Adam's other half
• Eden resident
• With 104-Down, 'Our Miss Brooks' star
• Former rib?
• Lead-in to a big day
• First fruit-picker
• Mother of 35-Down
• Holiday's yesterday
• Dec. 24, for example
• Adam's other
• "___ of Destruction": 1965 protest song
• Curie daughter
• "All About ___" (Bette Davis movie)
• Time before a crisis
• Marie and Pierre's daughter
• Night to party, maybe
• Three-faced film character
• Adam named her
• Motherless mother
• Day before an important date
• First fruit picker
• First victim of temptation
• One-named rapper/actress
• The day before
• Sistine Chapel depiction
• December 24th or 31st
• Time before a holiday
• Twlight time
• She raised a little Cain
• Wife of 19 Across
• A snake charmed her
• Time of excitement about toys, perhaps
• Garden of Eden woman
• Gift wrapping time, for many
• Garden outcast
• Eden evacuee
• Deceived Genesis figure
• Mom's counterpart
• Major figure in "Paradise Lost"
• Serpent's pigeon?
• Arden of "Our Miss Brooks"
• Diarist in a Twain story
• Night before a big game
• Jan Brady portrayer ___ Plumb
• Celebration before the celebration?
• Biblical fruit sampler
• 11-Down's mom
• Snake target
• First mother
• Biblical woman whose name means "life"
• Notable mother of estranged brothers
• Gift-wrapping time, for many
• Time to revel
• July 3, for one
• Tomorrow's is tonight
• Ill-fated fruit picker
• [See 43-Across]
• Fig-leafed female
• 56-Across' partner
• 25-Down resident, for a time
• Celebration time, often
• With 54-Down, Best Supporting Actress nominee for 1945's "Mildred Pierce"
• Twilight, to a poet
• Playwright Ensler
• Ensler who wrote “The Vagina Monologues”
• Frendly matriarch
• See 51-Across
• Brink of Christmas
• Night before a major holiday
• Eden outcast
• All Hallow's ___
• "X-Files" villain Eve ___
• Celebration time
• Brink of a holiday
• "She conceived, and bare Cain"
• One-named, Grammy-winning rapper
• She raised 14-Across
• Holiday starter
• Time to look forward
• Busy travel day, maybe
• Preparatory night
• One who succumbed to a serpent
• Holiday brink
• Adam's bride
• Serpent's prey
• Anticipatory night
• "Paradise Lost" woman
• Apple consumer
• Busy travel day, often
• Snake charmee?
• Female rapper with the 2002 hit "Gangsta Lovin'"
• Last day of the year, e.g.
• Eden occupant
• First grandmother
• Pre-event period
• First fruit fancier
• Halloween, for one
• Mother of Cain and Abel
• Humans' progenitor
• Best of "Nurse jackie"
• Fall guy's partner?
• Before, briefly
• Palindromic woman's name
• Biblical matriarch
• She's in the first book
• Pre-holiday time
• "Paradise Lost" figure
• Night that's also a day
• "The Three Faces of ___" (1957 film)
• 'Tis the night before Christmas
• Time for last-minute Christmas wrapping
• Biblical partner of 37-Down
• Work night for Santa
• Certain threshold
• Gift-wrapping time, often
• Calendrical brink
• Temporal cusp
• Anne in a Bette Davis film
• Eden female
• She "took of the fruit thereof, and did eat"
• D-Day minus one
• All Saints' Day vis-à-vis All Souls' Day
• Eden lady
• Festive night, often
• Biblical exile
• The "madam" in "Madam, I'm Adam"
• Adam's spouse
• Oct. 31, e.g.
• Poetic time
• Eden party
• Early outcast
• Holiday herald
• Old testament sinner
• Dec. 24, notably
• "From noon to dewy ___": Milton
• Memorable temptation victim
• Second name?
• Woman from the night before?
• Garden of Eden resident
• Adam's lady
• See 64-Across
• Pre-holiday night
• Holiday threshold
• 12/24, notably
• Period just before
• Time for last-minute planning
• Earth's first lady
• Figure in "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
• Holiday minus one day
• Person who never teethed, per Twain
• Night to party
• Thanksgiving ___
• Preparatory period
• Sistine Chapel ceiling depiction
• Early gardener
• 12/31, for one
• First transplant recipient?
• 12/24, for instance
• Fruit eater in Genesis
• Palindromic biblical figure
• All Hallows' ___
• She loses paradise in "Paradise Lost"
• Garden of Eden dweller
• Time immediately preceding
• Mother of 28-Across
• Second person in Genesis
• Time for preparations
• Day of planning
• Forbidden-fruit eater
• Madam of 2-Down
• Mother of man
• Adam's beloved
• With 116-Across, 'Mildred Pierce' actress
• Second person in Eden
• Mom of 10-Down
• Eden deportee
• Lady of Eden
• Boisterous span
• One of the first to inhabit Eden
• Mother of Cain
• Adam's significant other
• Woman often depicted 34-Across by 29-Across
• Mother of Abel
• Genesis matriarch
• Dec. 31, e.g.
• Wife of Adam
• Temporal threshold
• Adam's former girlfriend on "Inside Schwartz"
• "Garden of Earthly Delights" depiction
• Dec. 31, notably
• Preceding time
• 12/31 is one
• Forerunner in a race?
• Night before a big day
• Ancestor to all
• Fruit eater in Eden
• Last-minute shopping time
• Garden of Eden emigre
• Christmas lead-in
• Keat's "The ___ of St. Agnes"
• "Fairest of creation," in a Milton classic
• Eater of forbidden fruit
• Gift-wrapping day, perhaps
• Palindromic lady
• Evictee from 63 Across
• Adam's love
• Wrapping time
• The night before Christmas
• Big event lead-in
• Partner of 27-Down
• One in a story with an apple
• Pre-festival time
• December 31, for one
• Poetic time of day
• Response to "Madam, I'm Adam" that is itself a palindrome
• Brink of an event
• "The Lady ___"
• Eden inhabitant
• Woman of Eden
• Ms. Arden
• Arden or Brent
• Ms. Plumb
• "Ever Since ___"
• Garden of Eden lady
• Dec. 24th, for one
• Adam's biblical wife
• TV actress Plumb of "The Brady Bunch"
• Adam's mate in the Garden of Eden
• The Grinch went out on Christmas ___
• Dec. 24th is one
• First lady of the Bible
• The night before a big event
• December 24th
• December 31st, for one
• December 31st, for example
• December 24th is Christmas ___
• December 24th, for example
• The night before a holiday
• December 24th, for one
• Day before Christmas
• Word after Christmas or New Year's
• First lady in the Bible
• Day before New Year's Day
• Woman in a famous garden
• Rapper with her own UPN show
• The day before a girl is found
• Mitochondrial ___ (descendant of all living humans)
• The night before Christmas, say
• Part of NYE
• Last-minute shopper's day
• Previous day
• Absolute last-minute day for shopping
• December 24th, Christmas ___
• December 24th is one
• Eden matriarch
• December 24th or 31st, e.g.
• Day before any holiday
• Lady in Eden
• Preceder to Christmas Day
• Adam's companion
• Punk band ___ 6
• Rockers ___ 6
• U.K. band All About ___
• "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" rapper
• Metalers Hallows ___
• Metal band Hallows ___
• "Assassination on Christmas ___" Archers of Loaf
• Rapper that had her own UPN sitcom
• Powerpoppers ___ 6
• "Inside Out" ___ 6
• "Promise" ___ 6
• Barry McGuire "___ of Destruction"
• "Assassination on X-mas ___" Archers of Loaf
• "Rescue" ___ 6
• The First Lady?
• Woman in short uniform
• Dusky maiden?
• Clever girl?
• She takes a rest on the mountain
• She may be back
• She anticipates
• One woman in seven
• Has she had her day?
• Girl's name
• Bible palindrome
• Fruit sampler?
• WALL-E's love
• Grandmother of Enos and Enoch
• Grandmother of 47-Across
• First woman to be seen in the vestry
• The first mate is always cut short
• ... woman of the Seventies
• Tree of knowledge raider
• "The serpent beguiled me" speaker
• Night ere
• Actress Plumb
• Turgenev novel "On the ___"
• Adam's rib?
• All Hallows' ___ (autumn holiday)
• Woman depicted in many Renaissance paintings
• Party date, maybe
• Festive night, maybe
• Memorable role for Anne Baxter
• Second gardener
• She had an Arden following
• Time for St. Agnes
• Role(s) for Joanne
• ___ Theory (hypothesis that modern humans came from a single area)
• First family member?
• 24 December, Xmas ___
• Cain & Abel's mother
• Night before, ___ of
• December 24, Christmas ___
• ... the day before in Madame Veronique
• "___ of Destruction"
• First Lady's bit of 17?
• First mate?
• Apple picker in Genesis
• Garden name
• Mother of all
• Woman on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling
• 18 Across resident
• First woman in the Bible
• Love interest for WALL-E
• "All About ___" (1950 movie that got 14 Oscar nominations)
• Enos's grandmother
• Christmas ___ (December 24)
• The second human, in Christianity
• She tasted the forbidden fruit
• Creation figure
• Creation VIP
• See 39-Across
• Creationism lady
• Lead-in to a holiday
• TV's Plumb
• Milton called her "our credulous mother"
• She anticipates the day
• Lady No. 1
• Temporal brink
• "Killing ___" (Sandra Oh series on BBC America)
• A movie was all about her
• Sleek, white robot in "WALL-E"
• Woodward role
• Who said "The serpent deceived me, and I ate"
• First lady?
• A daughter of whom was a fool to sleep at noon, according to Christina Rossetti?
• Just-prior time
• Vice writer Peyser
• Evictee in Genesis
• Woman tempted in Genesis
• Is she anticipating?
• Apple eater in Genesis
• "The ___ of Christmas" (37-Down poem)
• First party member
• Pre-big-day
• Arden of "Grease"
• *Firework that doesn't work
• First offender?
• The real first lady
• Nightfall
• All Hallows' ___ (Oct. 31)
• Product of Adam's rib
• Early victim of temptation
• Special night
• 10-Across inhabitant
• The day before the day
• Mother of 10-Across
• Mom of 57-Down
• Palindromic Genesis name
• Victim of temptation, in Genesis
• Adam's Eden spouse
• Famous garden lady
• Holiday night
• Genesis VIP
• Bible's first lady
• Garden party?
• "Daughters of ___" (feminist novel)
• Busy time for Santa
• Woman famously evicted from her home
• Sampler of the forbidden fruit
• Three-faced movie heroine
• Dec. 24th
• Robot who falls in love with 2-Down
• Second person?
• Notable fruit sampler
• Actress Brent
• 30 Across exile
• A day of anticipation
• Time of expectation
• Brink of a celebration
• Second name?
• Clever girl?
• She was tempted
• Dusk
• Lead-up to a holiday
• Christmas ___ (Dec. 24)
• "Killing ___": TV thriller starring Sandra Oh
• Milton's "Daughter of God and Man"
• "The serpent deceived me" speaker
• Occasion for a party
• Palindromic Genesis woman
• Lady in the first garden
• NYE part
• Biblical garden denizen
• Jan portrayer
• Appropriately palindromic reply to "Madam, I'm Adam"
• Three-faced movie character
• She was very original
• Good name for a girl born on December 24?
• Sinner in 51-Down
• Ms. Brenner
• Genesis 2 name
• Serpent’s victim
• "Killing ___" (acclaimed BBC America series)
• Mother of 33-Across
• Mitochondrial ___, genetics figure
• Day before the big day
• Woman in 9-Down
• 36-Across matriarch
• Garden dweller
• Early apple-picker
• Number one woman?
• "Killing ___" (Sandra Oh show)
• 1/2 vis-à-vis 1/3, say
• Last day of December, e.g.
• Day or night before
• Halloween ___
• Cain was her first child
• Biblical apple eater
• Expectant time
• “Paradise Lost” character
• Palindromic response to "Madam, I'm Adam"
• Three-faced woman
• 67-Across outcast
• July 3 is one
• "1919" author Ewing
• Dec. 24 or 31, e.g.
• The first woman
• Pre-holiday observance
• Spouse in Eden
• Biblical woman with a palindromic name
• "Tambourine" rapper
• Lady number one
• Woman in 57 Down
• Adam's rib in the flesh
• "Dispatches From Elsewhere" actress Lindley
• Night before an important day
• Observance before a holiday
• Last night, vis-à-vis today
• Woman's name that means "life"
• Actress Lindley
• **She lived in Eden (1 to 2 + ...)
• WALL-E's romantic interest
• Word with "Christmas" or "New Year's"
• Grandmother of 20-Across
• Before time
• Arden or Plumb
• The "E" of N.Y.E.
• Portentous time
• Co-host of "The Talk"
• Evening
• "All About ___" (1950 film)
• Halloween vis-à-vis November 1
• Genesis fruit eater
• She lost paradise in "Paradise Lost"
• "First Cow" cow
• "May Day ___" (Nick Joaquin short story)
• Biblical woman
• "Killing ___"
• Simple palindromic reply to "Madam, I'm Adam"
• Sociologist and author Ewing
• Predate?
• Actress Brenner
• One-named rapper who became a co-host of CBS's "The Talk"
• "Rich Girl" rapper
• Conductor Queler
• Twelfth Night vis-à-vis Three Kings' Day
• Day before Thanksgiving, e.g.
• Actor Trevor ___
• First lady not married to a president?
• Woman on the Sistine Chapel ceiling
• "Killing ___": BBC America drama
• Time to start celebrating, maybe
• "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" artist
• "Killing ___" (Sandra Oh series)
• Lady one
• "Gangsta Lovin'" rapper, 2002
• Holiday's precursor
• Ill-fated fruit eater
• All Saints' ___
• Tony-winning playwright Ensler
• Lady No
• Night before a celebration
• Human No
• Birthday ___ (last day of being a certain age)
• Nochebuena, for example
• Dec. 24th, famously
• Title TV role for Sandra Oh
• Night before a special day
• "Killing ___," spy thriller
• The day before the day you've been waiting for
• First garden resident
• Inhabitant of 48-Across
• Biblical progenitor
• The "E" in NYE
• Leading lady?
• Dec. 24 or Dec. 31
• Spring Festival ___
• Robot in Pixar's "WALL-E"
• "Maya and the Robot" writer Ewing
• Apple picker?
• Biblical lady
• Mother of 1-Across
• Dec. 31, for example
• Woman on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
• First mate on dry land?
• The day before a holiday
• Titular Sandra Oh spy character
• "One more sleep" time
• The day before Lunar New Year, for one
• Brenner or Brent
• Time of preparation, maybe
• June 18th vis-à-vis Juneteenth
• Time for last-minute gift wrapping
• Late night for Old St. Nick
• 12/31, for example
• Has she had her day?
• Wall-E's friend
• "House of the Dragon" actress Best
• Actress Barbara ___ Harris
• Mother number one
• Night before a big 55-Down
• Person in Eden
• Eden's first lady
• Lady from Eden
• Halloween night, to All Saints' Day
• World's first seeker of knowledge, according to the Bible
• Best of "House of the Dragon"
• Biblical first lady
• Titular TV role for Sandra Oh