| Ballet luminary |
| Narrow inlet of a river |
| Character changed by spirits at Yuletide |
| Agile athlete |
| Brain-scan letters |
| Narrow river inlet |
| Athletic shoe company |
| Letter before gee |
| All, e.g., for this answer's last six letters? |
| 7th letter, Greek alphabet |
| Abbr. at the bottom of a business letter |
| James Bond film, to a letter writer? |
| Piglet's creator |
| Archaeologist's letters |
| Actor who played Hamlet in a 1964 production deliberately staged to look like a rehearsal |
| All-points bulletin, e.g. |
| Hamlet's cry of disgust |
| A mild expletive |
| Organizations with Greek letters |
| Yuletide confection? |
| Complete defeat |
| Confusing statements ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| Letter before theta |
| All points bulletin |
| Four-letter-word concealer |
| Four-letter fruit pronounced in three syllables |
| And so on and so forth, briefly |
| Amtrak bullet train |
| Ballet's Tallchief |
| Surprises unpleasantly, and a hint to each starred answer's first two + last two letters |