Crossword answers for clue: comfort or cheer

• CONSOLE_{Comfort or cheer}

• NOTREDAME_{"Cheer, cheer for old ___."}

• EASE_Comfort

• CHOCOLATE_{Best comfort food}

• EADS_{Robert ___, transgender rights pioneer and subject of the documentary "Southern Comfort"}

• PET_{Creature of comfort}

• SOOTHE_Comfort

• SOLACE_Comfort

• DIXIELANDBRAND_{Southern Comfort, e.g.?}

• CONTAC_{Cold comfort?}