Puzzle Of The Year - 2024

Birds show how to take crack cocaine before start of sunrise, or conversely how to take powder cocaine (7)

#CountsOnGunItsUndry (6)

In a pickle jar came Sol - and also in this? (5,5)

Engage muscles before ball (6)

Drunk Axl Rose expelling first bit of chunder - why he soiled himself perhaps? (8)

Insect, fly and bug almost in icy area (9)

Rebel, for one, wearing bomb, topless (8)

Maybe enter a formula (3)

Never ending sack might be a shelter for christmas presents (3)

December celebration held by Afghan UK kahunas (8)

Cross dresser’s large, terrible howler (3,3,4)

Examining unwrapped Christmas symbol (5)

Last Christmas band starts to wave hands at Mass (4)

Return to corrode church candle (5)

Abandoned on drugs but never drunk (4,3,3)

Muddled, unfair and broken (3,2,5)

Blocks missing start of Gay Pride Month! (3)

Start of hymn in C or D? (5)

For example, Sky's introduction - boxing, golf and Spurs (4)

Cook books to help make dough or bread? (5,7)

Scrooge's dismissive sound almost follows spirit arriving at ballroom steps (5)

Actor Olivia Munn leads in Cheers (3,5)

Set on, put off, dug up (10)

Christmas presents that come in pairs solved utter shambles (6,5)

Boy loses new Action Man, say (3)

Looking great in no top, strangely (2,5)

Explain only as long as unknown (7)

Cartoon Shopkeeper's earplug regularly ignored (3)

Santa's bag holding in TinTin, oddly (5,4)

Python, swallowing new golf ball, is a scaly creature (8)

Natural disaster one's bumhole sent back West (7)

Without coat, loveliest girl finds fun thing to do in winter (8)

Large ring to catch equine? (5)

Rotten performed with Vicious, maybe, for the audience (6)

Elk's first antler damaged forever (7)

Barrels without opening grills (4)

Purest explosive blows up (6)

Perhaps Queen's throne refurbished (6)

Former United manager removes jacket in port (3)

Direction to swing curly hair (3)

Note contains island writer's end (3)

One who transitioned in adolescence - except trans exclusionary radical feminist introduces “lady on the outside only” (9)

Lift arm and knees-up (5)

Called out "are you aware of a city in Alaska?" (6)

Concrete capital (4)

Tilt part of gun (4)

Hang about and toil about, Queen (6)

The King converts current into energy for toy manufacturers (5)

A robe's origins in South India? (4)

Snowshoe turns one into a facet of Jamaican culture (3)

The BBC entertained by Romeo and Juliett returning in a more cheerful manner (8)

Mushroom’s somewhat self raising, perhaps? (8)

According to reports, pains caused by robbery shows big risk, big reward (4,6)

Working backwards forces convention (4)

Laker in Japanese city (4)

Reconcile Stanley’s band with their USP (4,3,4,2)

Time tries to surpress King and Danny's gang (1-5)

Commercial run up to Christmas trading - November with resistance (6)

What one may do up the wrong tree trunk sheath (4)

A noise you may hear from the roofs on 24th's three houses (2,2,2)

Perhaps 3D effect (2)

Fake boob? No chance (6,2)

Feature of Christmas Dinner that's penny each (3)

Prophet's unknown energy either side, like at sea (7)

Across 22 acres her mitts thrown about (9,4)

Cor blimey's close after measure of resistance (2,2)

In life, very bad headaches may be caused by this (5)

Current & new (2)

Victorian Christmastime? (6)

Deliverer of Christmas presents found in Panama zone (6)

Genuine escape (5)

Spot creator’s anger when retired - relax! (4,4)

Charlie leaves disc jockey’s place of work - you might hear it on the radio? (9)

Teaching airline note working (7)

Fish fingers (4)

Maybe someone who live streams musical instrument for sheep aloud (8)

Heads of the youth parliament implement strict totalitarian standards for those who work for dictators, perhaps? (7)

Goddess cradles one close to daughter, son and other young people (7)

The sound of a cold and the sound of what catches it (7)

Sex appeal in Virginia beginning to manifest in compound (7)

Wine kit spilled - I'm unsurprised (1,4,2)

Head of Apple acted like sportswear giant (6)

Deer children show affection for succeeded (5)

Top hat (3)