Puzzle 1

Artificial fabric often used in cheap clothing.

Beer company whose ads feature Clydesdale horses.

Blood is thicker __.

Describes poor or bad weather.

Hard-finished fabric with a twill weave.

He goes down the chimney in Up On the Housetop.

Semiaquatic cousin of the croc.

Small gray Australian parrot.

St Lucia is part of this Caribbean island chain.

Unimportant, squandering.