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I had great fun compiling this light-hearted cryptic crossword for the festive season. I hope you enjoy solving it. (Do let me know!) If you wish to work on the interactive version, please click on this link which will take you to Antony Lewis’s Crossword Compiler web page. Best wishes for Christmas and the coming year.

Festive greetings, by Chalicea

Across

1 Quality shared by 1,17′s sack and the turkey! Filled very full! (7)

4 Small and liberated member of minority church … (3,4)

9 … and the activity he engages in – place of worship disappearing! (11)

11 Revolutionary aunt – a title of respect in the Malay archipelago (4)

12 One boy returns – a famous Spanish artist! (4)

13 Pain sir? Concoction might help your headache! (7)

15 Overheated state of a dish of meat cooked in stock (4)

16 Likewise found in choral society (4)

18 Famous scientist accepts direction in governement-planned town (3,4)

22 Inly discomposed, having rows! (4)

24 Somehow mean to have the last word (4)

25 Indulgence in good eating – I’m dangerous when run amok! (11)

26 Stupors potentially produced by everyone’s favourite Christmas veg! (7)

27 A flirty drunken feeling, the result of over-indulging? (7)

Down

1/17 Peculiar sultana sac? No, his is full of other goodies! (5,5)

2 Alpine wind, primarily from our higher neighbourhoods (4)

3 Noblemen in good time having a bit of sherry for the start of Yule (5)

5 Type of bacterium hiding in the Coliseum! (5)

6 Discovered without a hint of ownership, a laid-up store (4)

7 Nature of 1/17′s helpers, enveloped by self-interest? (Indeed not!) (5)

8 Festive season diverisfying its charms (9)

9 Singing in celebration but with hearts lacking – heeling over! (7)

10 So gamey, frolicking and gladsome! (7)

13 Sawn, topless shelter with a canvas covering (3)

14 Gran’s bread? (3)

17 See 1

19 Unusually greet a white heron (5)

20 Weird redesigned but 1/17 would probably prefer it if chimneys were this! (5)

21 Have a good time, bits of entertainment and delight (5)

23 Most of 1/17′s joyous cry – calling for attention (2-2)

24 It’s a fermented wine (4)

Here is the solution to crossword No. 35.

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