CAST's Cryptic Christmas Crossword 2024
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Jackson's civil war halted.
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Across
  1. 1A
    Jackson's civil war halted.
  2. 9A
    Only one in the trees in this cash-strapped panto.
  3. 10A
    Sooty '80s pop group.
  4. 11A
    Do German's give poison at Christmas?
  5. 14A
    Succeed in passing.
  6. 16A
    Do Merlin and Gandalf have this kind of Christmas?
  7. 17A
    No Christmas 'spirits' for this horizontal plane.
  8. 18A
    This keeps everything together.
  9. 19A
    Hearing test?
  10. 20A
    xiv lbs = a _ _ _ _ _.
  11. 22A
    Steinbeck's left-wing ride. (3,4)
  12. 23A
    Perhaps St Sales is the patron saint of these?
  13. 24A
    It's hard to find a bit of this Welsh toast.
  14. 28A
    The first to bring the tools.
  15. 29A
    Woman's Indian coin.
  16. 30A
    Annually for Kate and Emma.
Down
  1. 2D
    The Tyne Tunnel takes this out of its drivers.
  2. 3D
    This Christmas saint is not old.
  3. 4D
    Toast to the bringer of mulled wine at Christmas.
  4. 5D
    The Irish Dail is set out this way in the UK.
  5. 6D
    Alethic mixed for a moral meaning.
  6. 7D
    Combined sorcery and rug to get Aladdin's transport. (5,6)
  7. 8D
    Oral hygiene without the candy. (6,5)
  8. 12D
    Christmas house made from a brown loaf.
  9. 13D
    What a carry on to turn the sleigh round.
  10. 15D
    The exam on the 25th makes it irritable.
  11. 16D
    The past tense of Scrooge.
  12. 20D
    'Walking in the air' with this fellow.
  13. 21D
    One of the Magi.
  14. 25D
    Sad Tories.
  15. 26D
    Annoying little insect.
  16. 27D
    Wan quiet beer.
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