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)
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)