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