The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,808 - Dec 24 2008

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Clues Answers
24 hours DAY
Amphibious vehicle DUKW
Arm covering SLEEVE
Ballet skirt TUTU
Bicker SQUABBLE
Birmingham (informal) Brum
Chop up bird cooked and eaten at Christmas MINCEPIE
Crazy party items CRACKERS
Cross priest sent back holly ILEX
Decline EBB
Detached areas ISLANDS
Doorpost JAMB
Earnest (anag.) EASTERN
Explorer is eating last of the sledge dogs SCOTTIES
Finger DIGIT
Full of relish ZESTFUL
Hellenic GREEK
Lack SHORTAGE
Last drop in glass HEELTAP
League UNION
Movement, one hears, of ice FLOE
MPs getting enthusiastic for a party HOUSEWARMING
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Number of fingers FROST
Old region in Asia Minor IONIA
Part of a piano KEYBOARD
Photocopied XEROXED
Plant hormone AUXIN
Present the woman's beginning to expect HERE
Pretentious CHICHI
Rest break after party in SW County DORSET
Sadness of Scrooge by the end of Christmas Day MISERY
Sample the fresh mince pies I left SPECIMEN
Scabby MANGY
Some baste the turkey and let it stand STET
Something afoot in pantomime GLASSSLIPPER
Strengthened LINED
Take exception to gift not being packed initially RESENT
The tree is inspected by a fortune-teller PALM
Transport in winter is murder they say SLEIGH
Very sensitive ALLERGIC
Very toxic poison DIOXIN
Warship FRIGATE
What Father Christmas doesn't do in a quiet way SHAVE