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A New Year wish from us to all crossword solvers. If you wish to work on the interactive version, click on this link which will take you to the Crossword Compiler page.

Whatever your 13, we wish you the 9 things that appear in the perimeter and at 8dn.

Across

1 Sounds of merriment (6)

4 Advantageous things well worth having (6)

9 More immense (7)

10 Dominant theme or subject in a literary or musical work (5)

11 A short person (5)

12 A bright orange red or fabric so coloured (7)

13 Decisions to do something or to behave in a certain manner (11)

18 Strong north wind that blows in France during the winter (7)

20 Come or go into (5)

22 Hoard (5)

23 Diatomite brought from Libya (7)

24 Soundness of mind (6)

25 Abilities that have been acquired by training (6)

Down

1 Frivolity (6)

2 Capsize or overturn (5)

3 Cry of enquiry, encouragement or exultation (5-2)

5 Shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (the shoemaker) (5)

6 Alimentary canal (especially of an embryo or a coelenterate) (7)

7 Security (6)

8 An untroubled state; free from disturbances (11)

14 The 5th letter of the Greek alphabet (7)

15 Place with a frozen floor for hockey or skating (3,4)

16 Liaisons (6)

17 Mental ability (6)

19 To bluster or swagger (5)

21 Suffer in the past (5)

Here is the solution of the Christmas cryptic crossword:

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