The 3G Cryptic Christmas Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. Muddled, 'e sees fun worlds - finches love these! (9.5)
  2. 6. Canine by the forest gives lovely stems for winter decoration (7)
  3. 7. Standing by crate, knock back these roasted Christmas treats (9)
  4. 11. ____Ingalls Wilder? ____Bush? Or is it a mad dog-lady who lives in West Sussex? (5)
  5. 13. Sounds like a kind of thrush and a body part - pucker up! (9)
  6. 16. Sounds like Dad cuts these vegetables for the Christmas feast! (8)
  7. 17. ____Paige? ____Stritch? Are they as potty about roses as this lady?!(6)
  8. 18. Prickly festive plant, suitably rhyming with jolly! (5)
Down
  1. 1. Almost a bike? So be it. Such pretty flowers for winter pots! (8)
  2. 2. Holding rage inside, put fork-prong round an Xmas fruit (9)
  3. 3. ____Edmunds? Or another word for Christmas (4)
  4. 5. David____, famous interviewer; or Jack____ nipping at your nose! (5)
  5. 7. ____of Brunswick? Noooo, she lives in Scotland.(8)
  6. 8. A Christmas tree that sounds gloomy but very neat and tidy (4,6)
  7. 9. Gloriously bright Xmas plant which messily I set in a pot (10)
  8. 10. Perfect festive foliage that a clever greengrocer stocks (9)
  9. 12. Showy houseplant with Jesus' mother in the middle! (9)
  10. 14. Declaims about Romeo to give you an Xmas dinner essential (7)
  11. 15. For January and February is it a fighting match, or scented shrub? (6,3)