The blank for this month’s puzzle is here: December blank
CLUES
Across
1.,& 8 across. Negative Semitic God for Christmas? (4)
2. Right away spring coil jeer to experience gladness. (7)
8. See 1 across.
10. Star dynamo transits late. (5)
11. Play ace for faint star. (3)
13. Moral corrupted by gnashing teeth? (5)
16. Over ancient Heliopolis? (2)
18. Flock in automobile. (3)
19. A member of an allegory. (3)
21. Therefore, I hear, stitch! (2)
22. The dean’s turned down a chair to be carried in. (5)
24. 12 zoned badly.
26. Annex trashed by the many supernumeraries. (6)
28. Festoon scribe deck for Christmas maybe? (6)
29. Plain text starts. (2)
30. Sheared apart and sticks together. (7)
32. Theistic evolutionist to start with. (2)
33. Wiser umpire crossed organic fluid. (5)
34. An article from earn from Mr Malley? (3)
36. Pasts dashed by dashing gaiters! (5)
39. Greek in code? (2)
41. Go! Aussie gold! (2)
42. Information technology. (2)
44. Like a start.
45. Wild litany taps ivy to show Christmas story over and over. (8,5)
Down
1. Sodium not allowed! (2)
3. Beginning of the end times. (2)
4. Ninja cobweb crosses ancestor of Jesus. (5)
5. By mouth in the chorale. (4)
6. Visionary but ailed. (5)
7. Could you begin to build Fremantle harbour? (2)
9. Lady Day
12. Banjos’ ephemera for the father of Jesus. (6)
13. Nomads turned around for singularities. (6)
14. Scarlet Mee turned around to rescue from sin. (6)
15. Spanish priest to open door and carry Mary to Bethlehem. (6)
17. Subsequent net about the beginning of Christmas? (4)
18. A ram backed a bitter name. (4)
20. Multiple divinity from wild canines? (4)
21. Dissenting group in insects. (4)
23. Don’t touch Book 5 of the Torah! (2)
25. Little Zedekiah. (2)
27. Can she episcopally traverse the witness of Christ’s birth? (5)
28. The force of the blow when you take the article from the twisted turban. (5)
31. Where does the wandering ant err? (6)
35. Israeli son in benediction. (3)
36. Four-wheel drive found in Vesuvius! (3)
37. Small taste of sensitive psi. (3)
38. Dolt left off pass. (3)
41. Initials Amnesty International. (2)
43. Timothy’s letter! (2)