Start of a classic Christmas poem

The answer

TWAS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TWAS answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TWAS

Every other clue in this collection answered by TWAS, most used first.

• "___ the night before Christmas ..." - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ the night before ..." - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ brillig . . . " - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "Jabberwocky" opener - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
• "Jabberwocky" starter - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Poetic contraction. - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Christmas poem opener - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• "A Visit from St. Nicholas" opener - used 23 times, most recently in 2019
• First word of "Jabberwocky" - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• "Jabberwocky" start - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ the night . . . " - used 20 times, most recently in 2014
• "Jabberwocky" beginning - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• First word of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Moore poem starter - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• Poet's contraction - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Quaint contraction - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ brillig, and the slithy toves..." - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• "___ brillig, and the slithy toves ... " (first line of "Jabberwocky") - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Start of a Christmas poem - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Christmas carol - NOEL, used 134 times
• Pastoral poem - IDYL, used 120 times
• From the start - ANEW, used 96 times
• Dynamic start - AERO, used 94 times
• "___ want for Christmas..." - ALLI, used 92 times
• Christmas song - NOEL, used 91 times

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