xmas 2025

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Across
  1. 5. Musical mortgage alternative (4)
  2. 7. Lots of festive celebs, but it really has no points (4,8)
  3. 8. 50+4+1+500? This maths is making me angry (5)
  4. 11. No Woods for festive European girl (6)
  5. 12. Split nation sounds like a good job (5)
  6. 14. The smile before church is the least Christmassy of all (3,6)
  7. 16. Stocking can be fit around confused hens (7)
  8. 17. Train a confused horse stealer with ten per person (3,5,7)
  9. 20. Inside voice, lest I alert god (9)
  10. 21. Lead the golden ratio into grate (8)
  11. 24. Tree in between palace walls (4)
  12. 25. Flasher no more in order (6)
  13. 26. Fish in tin is not stirred (6)
  14. 27. Pipe seamstress (5)
  15. 29. Brazilian flower marketplace (6)
  16. 31. Peer into pile to find a spot (6)
  17. 33. Energetic drips up around mangled tie (8)
  18. 34. Film the bishops neighbour ere Yule (3,6,6,9)
  19. 36. Toy maker to be found in Denmark, LA, USA etc. (5)
Down
  1. 1. Old food is carry-on we hear (7)
  2. 2. Chew healthy? I do get the rest (3,7)
  3. 3. Blast and soar around lucky flier (9)
  4. 4. Part of red chlorine. Australian movie (4,5)
  5. 6. Asteroid shower (9)
  6. 9. Genuflect it back East for a classy look (3,3)
  7. 10. Hidden in secret edifice (8)
  8. 13. Hark, a duck. Sell in exchange for a mushroom paste (8)
  9. 15. Christmas oil honest smeller (12)
  10. 16. Primary evergreen avenue (5)
  11. 18. Jason’s ship heading to the shop (5)
  12. 19. Low tier (8)
  13. 22. Unlock island hello outside broken room (9)
  14. 23. Before the present day (9,3)
  15. 28. If you mess up the arithmetics in WHS you might leave with a Bing classic (5,9)
  16. 30. Bury shortly established curiosity (8)
  17. 32. Firelighter game (5)
  18. 35. Employed secreted around about (5)