Answer: ELVES
ELVES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 109 times.
Referring Clues:
- Sprites
 - Little people
 - Santa's assistants
 - Subordinate Clauses?
 - Short subjects?
 - Pole staff?
 - Except for the first, digs brownies (5)
 - Dwellers in Middle-earth
 - Santa's little helpers
 - Santa's helpers
 - Shoemaker's helpers, in a fairy tale
 - Garden decorations
 - Keebler crew
 - Fairy tale shoemaker's helpers
 - Keebler cookie makers
 - Tree dwellers of cookie ads
 - Noted toymakers
 - Noted workshop workers
 - Reindeer caretakers, traditionally
 - Pole positions are held by them
 - Seasonal helpers
 - North Pole crew
 - Legendary toyshop workers
 - Polar drudges
 - Shoemaker's helpers
 - Brownies
 - North Pole assistants
 - Makers of 38 Across
 - Arctic assistants
 - North Pole workers
 - Cookie-making crew of ads
 - Pixies
 - Santa's subordinates
 - North Pole helpers
 - Pole staff
 - Shoemaker's staff
 - Shoemaker's staff, in myth
 - Santa's staff
 - North Pole artisans
 - Legendary toy makers
 - Cobblers of kiddie lit
 - Grimm cobblers
 - Gremlins
 - Fairy tale figures
 - Fairy-tale shoemaker's helpers
 - Seasonal crew?
 - Seasonal crew?
 - Leprechaun kin
 - Leprechaun kin
 - Holiday cookie bakers
 - Some cobblers of lore
 - Legendary toymakers
 - Keebler staff
 - Toy builders
 - Santa's crew
 - Pole workers
 - Staff at the Pole
 - Munchkins
 - "The Lord of the Rings" race
 - Middle-earth residents
 - North Pole denizens
 - Pointy-eared race
 - Tolkien subjects
 - Christmas helpers
 - Rivendell inhabitants
 - Diminutive beings of folklore
 - Youthful creatures of myth
 - Some Middle-earth dwellers
 - Toy-making bunch
 - Figures in "Teutonic Mythology"
 - Diminutive beings
 - Keebler commercial characters
 - Woodland sprites
 - Seasonal workers
 - December helpers
 - Prankish beings
 - Ones wrapping around a pole?
 - Dungeons & Dragons race
 - North Pole toymakers
 - Keebler's crew
 - Fabled toy makers
 - Diminutive fairytale creatures
 - Notably nonunionized workers
 - Fairy folk
 - Sprightly little creatures
 - Ouphs
 - Legolas and kin
 - 23-Across doubled?
 - Dungeons & Dragons characters
 - Fabled northern workers
 - Rivendell residents
 - Short staff?
 - Fabled mischief-makers
 - Supposed makers of Keebler cookies
 - Pointy-eared fantasy creatures
 - What the answer to each of the starred clues has
 - Toymakers in Santa's workshop
 - Polar personnel
 - Tolkien characters
 - Arctic toymakers
 - Christmas creatures
 - Seasonal aides
 - Mythical mischief-makers
 - North Pole employees
 - Snap, Crackle and Pop, e.g.
 - Residents of Valinor, in "The Lord of the Rings"
 - North Pole creatures
 - Fabled toymakers
 - Pointy-eared D&D creatures
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 28, 2025
 - USA Today - September 18, 2025
 - LA Times - January 05, 2025
 - USA Today - December 30, 2024
 - New York Times - November 17, 2024
 - USA Today - May 13, 2024
 - USA Today - March 14, 2024
 - LA Times - September 25, 2022
 - USA Today - June 03, 2021
 - USA Today - April 15, 2021
 - Universal - April 14, 2021
 - LA Times - December 16, 2020
 - Universal - October 12, 2020
 - USA Today - September 08, 2020
 - Netword - September 06, 2020
 - New York Times - August 30, 2020
 - Netword - July 02, 2020
 - Netword - June 18, 2020
 - New York Times - May 20, 2020
 - Universal - May 19, 2020
 
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