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Seasonal Cryptic Quiz
I'm hopeless at cryptic quizzes. I know several of you are a whizz at these and enjoy a challenge. Very grateful for any help with these please.
1. pleasure in Ankara (7, 7)
2. Grasp a confused magus (6)
3. Foggy French digis (9)
4. Smiths car involved in festival (9)
5. 12-o'clock accmulation (8, 4)
6. A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z (4)
7. They're wicked (7)
8. Quiet Sir Lancelot (6, 5)
9. Short girl turns the French material under here (9)
10. Ice crystals now managed and formed (7)
11. Santa's sack-load (8)
12. Raiments of monarch seized by retreating highlanders (9)
13. Three consecutive strikes and you're roasted (6)
14. Rearranged silent worthless tree adornment (6)
15. Uncoordinated coordinates (11)
16. Derogatory constabulary w rapped up w arm in the oven (4, 2, 8)
17. At year's end/beginning mahogany is sculpted (8)
18. I'm top name in fairytale show (9)
19. Sung in orca roll or at your door (5) ....carol? Did I get one right?
20. Character whose 'own goal' contributes a bad score
21. fireworks on the dinner table? Mad? (9)
22. One's present arrangements could well depend on it (9, 4)
23. Polar present producers (5)
24. Team driver starting on pole (5, 5)
25. Money and drink - one tast of Christmas (5, 5)
26. hristmas scene (8)
27. Winston initially performing rhythmic monologue with musical backing in the Sun (8, 5)
28. Endlessly intertwined foliage round in the war perhaps (6)
29 . Incense made some balmy 'R' rodium (5)
30. Girl's name for army manoevres (4)
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