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