Christmas Crossword 2025

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Across
  1. 4. Neither am nor pm liturgy (8,4)
  2. 7. Gallic gift-giver (4,4)
  3. 8. Ottoman country consumed at Christmas (6)
  4. 10. Carol beginning sounds like small royal trio (2,5,5)
  5. 11. Lent is confused as Christmas adornment (6)
  6. 13. Door decoration sounds like first BBC Director General (6)
  7. 14. Jesus’ first human visitors (8)
Down
  1. 1. Batman friend seen on Christmas cards (5)
  2. 2. Addams’ family butler changes vowel and becomes conifer (5)
  3. 3. Latin invitation to the faithful (6,7)
  4. 4. Spiced festive drink (from Tobermory?) 6,4)
  5. 5. Winter activity getting you down (8)
  6. 6. David’s ‘house of bread’ (9)
  7. 9. Poet of Magic journey upsets toilets (1,1,5)
  8. 12. White stuff (but not manna) from Heaven (5)