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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By Skylarking
Date: 16 Dec 2011 Title: Warped and Twisted Christmas Teaser
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Across
5. Sounds like an opening for worship (5)
6. Like the Angel of the Lord did, it would seem (6)
7. See 11 across (4,7)
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11. (and 7 across) A reminder of what was once spruce? (4,7)
12. Rots a pudding; the Christmas dinner! (5)
14. The preposition before a midnight clear (4)
15. Sounds like Santa's means of ingress causes a complaint (3)
16. The age of King Cole (3)
17. Not a pretty fruit (4)
19. According to Shakespeare, its quality is not strained (5)
21. How the goose provides golden eggs? (4)
23. see 18 down (3,4,2,5,9)
26. Laid out with holly and ivy? (6)
27. Irish town joins global organisation to ensure that wine flows freely (6)
28. Palm fruits found on an advent calendar? (5)
Down
1. More than one fine voice in a choir (7)
2. Sounds like the opposite of stick is needed when assessing the quality of gold (5)
3. The day for leaping lords? (5)
4. Count a single merry laugh on the huntsman's lips? (5-2)
8. Leap around on request? (4)
9. Complaining about the Christmas roast? (7)
10. Tearfully sentimental about Oxford bridge? Sounds like it! (7)
12. Odd spirit (3)
13. Word play? (3)
18. (also 22 down and 23 across) A carol about sleeping off over-indulgence? (3,4,2,5,9)
20. Sounds like a part in the pantomime a Swiss would find a piece of cake! (4)
22. see 18 down (3,4,2,5,9)
24. This holder of a Christmas record (5)
25. A creature notably unstirred by Christmas (5)