Possible Clues:

• Town ransacked by the Grinch
• City whose holiday was threatened
• Town targeted by the Grinch, and an apt description of the ends of the answers to the starred clues?
• ... go inside a speck of dust on a clover flower
• Town in two Dr. Seuss books
• Cindy Lou's hometown, in kiddie lit
• Town invaded by the Grinch
• Dr. Seuss story setting