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Christmas Cryptic 3

◆ · By Melanie Branton · Published 2024-12-22T11:29:59.820Z

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    1A
    What Royal Mail will do if you send joss sticks through the post as a Christmas present? (12)
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    Across
    1. 1A
      What Royal Mail will do if you send joss sticks through the post as a Christmas present? (12)
    2. 8A
      Bravo! Something to roast your Christmas vegetables in! Or cook them another way (4)
    3. 9A
      Even after Brexit, the EU are most welcome for part of Christmas dinner (8)
    4. 12A
      Sport with three points in Norse method of fortune-telling (5)
    5. 13A
      Masefield's quinquereme of Nineveh came from here (5)
    6. 16A
      Harrison Ford character found plunged in tamarind yoghurt (4)
    7. 17A
      The leader of Germany and female relative are looking too thin (5)
    8. 18A
      It arrives at Christmas dinner by boat every year (5)
    9. 19A
      The 24th First Lady (3)
    10. 21A
      Two points for us! (2)
    11. 23A
      Privately taught boy pharaoh shortly to take nothing festive coloured (7)
    12. 25A
      Girl found in vile smell (4)
    13. 27A
      Prime Minister loses direction making champagne cocktail (3)
    14. 28A
      Emit strange thing (4)
    15. 29A
      The kind of tact that is found in Christmas hampers (8)
    16. 30A
      Beastly home (3)
    Down
    1. 1D
      Bare fact I'd randomly made up (10)
    2. 2D
      A hot cross cake? Yes, for Putin and the National Trust! There's a lot of it about (8)
    3. 3D
      Liable to pry, like Rudolph (5)
    4. 4D
      American rock band often found under the mistletoe (4)
    5. 5D
      Miley's heart is in island in Paris (3)
    6. 6D
      He was one of the earliest to do his Christmas shopping (6)
    7. 7D
      Oscar abandons history confused and gets irritable (6)
    8. 10D
      Manage to get a point in cricket (3)
    9. 11D
      How Yule should always be recorded (6)
    10. 14D
      Joshua weirdly is hiding manufacturer of electrical goods (6)
    11. 15D
      How wise men spend their winter or what a speculators does? (7)
    12. 19D
      Unlike his partner, this comedian was not wise (4)
    13. 20D
      Rave about a girl - true! (4)
    14. 22D
      Martin who brings the brandy (4)
    15. 24D
      All right when paired with doki (3)
    16. 26D
      Encountered the London police or the New York Opera (3)
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