ASC Christmas Mildly Cryptic Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Overeating
  2. 5. speech Communicating through a chess piece
  3. 7. hat Political group's headgear
  4. 10. backwards dog
  5. 12. Planet without end fastener, pot without beginning
  6. 13. Foggy the French digit
  7. 15. greetings Spices up hello’s!
  8. 19. ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
  9. 20. calender 25 windows and doors to open
  10. 21. cards Festive aces to kings
  11. 23. doves sea tortoise in droves lost rabbit
  12. 25. A pull, a pop and a present
  13. 26. What the weather is love (almost)!
  14. 27. wreath Prickly garland
Down
  1. 1. Renowned joke or story
  2. 2. day Punching for 24 hours
  3. 4. paper sheared ewe leads urban rhyming lyrics on A4
  4. 6. tumbled ‘us as mats’
  5. 8. Stealin’, crimson bird
  6. 9. Prickly buddy
  7. 11. serpent mixed up
  8. 14. Bird place where delight comes from
  9. 16. Heavenly body
  10. 17. dinner Bring ‘Marx Dennis’ scrambled to the table
  11. 18. service Hymn requires car maintenance
  12. 22. wise men Ernie, Ernie and Ernie!
  13. 24. Enlist a mix of shiny stuff