Theocracy Christmas Cryptic 2025

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Across
  1. 4. Teacher is a thousand electron volts [3]
  2. 7. Donald leads confused Sikh to Russian Theocrat [6]
  3. 9. "I'm all in son." He's gone mad. [8]
  4. 12. Next year, young men like Paul...and Nick and Sooyeon [6,7]
  5. 16. Ong's stick fucked bus [3]
  6. 17. She's a MP at home in Chichester, hiding a man who loves her [6]
  7. 18. Gasson's beau takes time away from west coast rail [5]
Down
  1. 1. Arteta's style is to replace one with everything in Cincinnati gorilla [8]
  2. 2. Kirk hesitates for equaliser vs Shitlake (2019) [6]
  3. 3. Furious: "yes yes" to Spanish then Chinese
  4. 5. Sus sus ship [3]
  5. 6. Theocrat dynasty [3]
  6. 8. Zadeh weirdly forced young men to chug pints [5]
  7. 10. Top gent drives bus [6]
  8. 11. Cheeky and autistic: Yttrium replaces Hydrogen in North [5]
  9. 13. All-Roman Top bus [7]
  10. 14. Apex J [3]
  11. 15. Replacement bus is back [3]