Nikki Wordsmith’s Xmas Cracker Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. What you hope for; what you get.
  2. 10. The first line of the song title is: There's a guy in the place who's got a bittersweet face.
  3. 12. Austrian Xmas devil monster.
  4. 14. English idiom used as a metaphor for a situation in which a choice is clearly against one's self-interest.
  5. 16. God’s first name.
  6. 18. The lead singer of the the band who wrote the greatest Xmas tune, like, ever.
  7. 22. Old red wine spiced up to make it drinkable again.
  8. 23. Type of evergreen conifer tree.
Down
  1. 1. The greatest Xmas tune, like, ever.
  2. 3. A song sung on a doorstep.
  3. 4. A dessert demanded by the doorstep singers or ‘we won’t go until we get some’.
  4. 5. Chunk of land in the Indian Ocean, 1500km west of the Australian mainland.
  5. 6. English popstar who died on Xmas day 2016.
  6. 7. Resident of Crinkly Bottom
  7. 8. Original Dutch name of the big ole red guy.
  8. 9. New Zealnd Xmas tree.
  9. 11. A sub-ordinate claus.
  10. 13. Singing partner of the lead singer who sang the greatest Xmas song of all time, like ever.
  11. 15. Japanese Xmas day meal tradition since 1974 called Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii.
  12. 17. The reindeer that will go down in history.
  13. 19. Jesus’s middle initial.
  14. 20. Latin for snow.
  15. 21. The greatest Xmas film of all time, like, ever.