Across
- 2. (6,5) oral hygiene without the candy
- 3. annually for Kate and Emma
- 6. XIV lbs = a _ _ _ _ _
- 7. succeed in passing
- 9. annoying little insect
- 13. one of the Magi
- 15. sooty '80s pop group
- 17. do Merlin and Gandalf have this kind of Christmas?
- 20. wan quiet beer
- 21. perhaps St Sales is the patron saint of these?
- 23. Jackson's civil war halted
- 24. hearing test?
- 25. Christmas house made from a brown loaf
- 26. alethic mixed for a moral meaning
- 28. the first to bring the tools
- 30. no Christmas 'spirits' for this horizontal plane
- 31. woman's Indian coin
Down
- 1. this keeps everything together
- 4. the exam on the 25th makes it irritable
- 5. (3,4) Steinbeck's left-wing ride
- 8. (5,6) combined sorcery and rug to get Aladdin's transport
- 10. the Irish Dail is set out this way in the UK
- 11. the past tense of Scrooge
- 12. only one in the trees in this cash-strapped panto
- 14. the Tyne Tunnel takes this out of its drivers
- 16. 'walking in the air' with this fellow
- 18. it's hard to find a bit of this Welsh toast
- 19. toast to the bringer of mulled wine at Christmas
- 22. what a carry on to turn the sleigh round
- 25. do German's give poison at Christmas?
- 27. sad Tories
- 29. this Christmas saint is not old