The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th December 2015

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th December 2015. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Smooth wrapping paper, easily damaged?
AAcross 5:	Sprout inspiring celebrated bird
AAcross 9:	Oliver Twist, perhaps, in the Queen's Speech on a regular basis
AAcross 10:	British dependency no good for flamingoes in a storm
AAcross 11:	Spot recalled into which hefty eater takes a great deal — that's behind the tongue
AAcross 12:	Popular daily, vacuous newspaper in short?	INDY
AAcross 14:	Christmas crackers to grip on, those for Elizabeth?
AAcross 18:	Those making rowdy brawls from fairy lights, perhaps?
AAcross 21:	Crackers — what are they for?
AAcross 22:	Censor wicked and loathsome extremists heading for Richmond in US state capital
AAcross 25:	Hasty devil, posh as it happens, scoffing last of vol-au-vents
AAcross 26:	Tax contributing to development, it helps
AAcross 27:	Christmas present in obscurity
AAcross 28:	Little time on Whale Island
DDown 1:	Those in the red hats initially stuffing turkey in retail establishment
DDown 2:	A Norway spruce in part of Northern Ireland	ANTRIM
DDown 3:	Man in life, flawed genius primarily, as writer
DDown 4:	Cardinal virtue finally turning up, little time to live
DDown 5:	Game all I cooked in partridges etc
DDown 6:	See 1
DDown 7:	Advise against a plate of food Boxing Day
DDown 8:	Foppish behaviour in mind say, dude's first to gyrate
DDown 13:	Box clever in the end, entering school as writer
DDown 15:	Make dull creations lively
DDown 16:	A newspaper I love in outskirts of Chilean capital
DDown 17:	What's up high, punched by old boxer?
DDown 19:	Scrooge investing capital in theory — that's how he's known
DDown 20:	Wilder verbal attack starts in European city
DDown 23:	Ultimately, reverie in short?
DDown 24:	Down which Father Christmas sped, did you say?