Christmas Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. To God — case-sensitive, not possessive.
  2. 4. Now — but missing what customarily follows.
  3. 5. Flesh, cut from a longer assertion.
  4. 8. Born — but not as completely as you first think.
  5. 9. Cry heard when repairs finally work.HODIENATUS —
  6. 10. today — still missing its hinge.
  7. 11. Contained — though several things here are not.
  8. 14. To God, peace — order enforced.
  9. 16. Former monks’ rooms, losing their heart.
  10. 18. Peace, but only after surgery.
  11. 19. Child born — prophecy read without its gift.
  12. 20. Proper elevation — once what was lost is returned.
  13. 23. Earth — where peace is promised, but short a letter.
Down
  1. 1. Where praise starts — and stubbornly stops.
  2. 3. Done — but only after something else is restored.
  3. 6. Hope expressed — one letter short of fulfilment.
  4. 7. Praise, begun loudly but left hanging.
  5. 12. Incarnation, stripped of grammar.
  6. 13. Word, before it sheds what later makes it real.
  7. 15. Child, once what prophecy gives him is removed.
  8. 17. Visitors — though the obvious number misleads.
  9. 21. “Is”: arrives late, repairs damage.
  10. 22. Fashionable — or performing containment, depending.