Related Clues:

• Famous yuletide poem starter
• It was, poetically
• "'___ the night before Christmas . . ."
• Old-timey contraction
• First word of ''Jabberwocky''
• Word that begins with an apostrophe
• '-- brillig, ...'
• The word before "the night before ..."
• Contraction of it was
• "It was" contraction
• '-- not to be'
• Xmas poem opener
• First word of "Jabberwocky"
• '___ not to be'
• ' the night before ...'