Print out and complete: the Observer giant Christmas crossword 2023 | Crosswords
Print out and complete: the Observer giant Christmas crossword 2023
A bumper festive challenge from the Observer New Review. Click here for the solutions
Clues across
1 Flipping grand Irish party including loud noise and sweet food (7)
5 Seasonal visitor by outskirts of festive US city (5,2)
9 Party time’s close, drinking whiskey with you once (3,4)
13 Gourmet I treat, tucking into English roast (9)
14 Gambler has card with a pair of queens (7)
15 Ancient Britons chill by part of the UK (5)
16 Provide backing in feud nervously (5)
17 Plump setter’s friend in the most desirable fashion (9)
18 Miserable daughter’s abandoned and kicked out (7)
19 Seasonal song is Holy Land hit they’ve rewritten (3,5,3,3,3)
21 Mash up uncut drug (5)
22 Seasonal drink for one getting award from the east (6)
25 What bad writer did in start of story - moved slowly (8)
27 Kind of 7 in a 26 embraced entertaining painter (6)
29 Chubby lady’s relative associated with Christmas (6)
30 Fights mythological Greek giant filled with energy (6)
32 Person cutting wood from large, brown chess piece (9)
35 Dancing conga line gets warm (9)
36 The transport at Christmas is murder, we hear (6)
37 Executive missing a part of a nativity scene (6)
38 Shot new elementary particle (6)
40 Scoffing too much in part of a Christmas dinner (8)
42 Group helping kids organised fun around skating rink? (6)
45 Many London stores stocking material (5)
46 Acknowledge song is composed, a seasonal one (4,4,9)
50 Fashioned exterior of waistcoat, crude on the inside (7)
52 Seductive female worker’s clothing very Parisian (9)
54 Charlie has a day for practical jokes in Italian island (5)
55 American fighter with old friend from Madrid, say (5)
56 Charity hasn’t finished an account in yearly publication (7)
57 On second thoughts, a giant hen is peculiar (4,5)
58 The French, repeatedly drinking gallons, drained sherries - is this how they end up? (7)
59 Mostly unnecessary parts of the Christmas tree (7)
60 Sweet way learner admits lacking manners (7)
Clues down
1 For example, I have bought gift – ideal! (7,7)
2 Idle chatter on line probing case of depressive shrink (7)
3 Where babies develop flexible routine (2,5)
4 Good engineers peer in French city (8)
5 Maybe music article is uplifting a singer of Jingle Bells (7)
6 They provide reports of wines made badly (4,5)
7 Glean nuts one’s seen on top of the tree at Christmas (5)
8 One might catch worms in barley I threshed by road (5,4)
9 This old man perhaps terribly merry with Henry and us (7,5)
10 Compilers without success showing how Christmas may be (5)
11 Concerned with polling tree? Local’s working (9)
12 Dancer, say, in control, extremely demure and eager (8)
20 House outside of lovely spot in tiny, religious state (4,3)
21 Gold border for chinaware in unattractive chinaware (9)
23 Make progress back in boarding school (3,2)
24 Gorged on pasties occasionally put in microwave, say (9)
26 Vehicle lubricant I left out for 19, say (5)
28 Lay claim to invest in university loan supply (14)
31 Free bread rolls, but not British food (7)
32 Start using a computer symbol showing brand name (3,2)
33 Perhaps tricks old lady rolling fag (5)
34 Force crowd to suppress awful din in seasonal service (8,4)
39 Church finally giving the go-ahead for blessing (9)
40 Violent storm interrupting bridge player (9)
41 Passionate female Catalan excited about start of independence (9)
43 Son currently having party - is it thrown at Christmas? (8)
44 Record covered by Rolling Stones for dances (3-5)
47 Spreading straw, he makes Christmas decorations (7)
48 Using plain speech can rile rogue (2,5)
49 Kid clutching map showing Santa’s home? (7)
51 Travel round Home Counties for Christmas fowl (5)
53 This person ingests hot and cold kind of pie (5)
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