December Crossword - deadline 25 December

Welcome to December's Club Journal Crossword. Every month we give one lucky entrant a £50 prize.

How to enter: Simply print out the pdf, complete the grid and post to:

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT THE CROSSWORD

Club Journal Crossword (ACP) - Link Spaces,
Botanica Ditton Park, Riding
Court Road, Slough, SL3 9LL.

email your answers to sean@alchemymedia.co.uk.

And remember to include your Name, Club Name and the address you would like a cheque sent to should you win. Good luck!

ACROSS

1 Change the false hairpiece (6)
5 The hour has come to design the ‘Imp Suite’ (4,2,2)
9 Portions given out to an upbeat particle? (8)
10 Dances as the ops. ebb away (6)
11 Went about as an amphibian (4)
12 Hope raised within a musical drama (5)
14 Honour half of us? (3)
15 Bird which could hold a fan? (8)
17 Tray of colossal vermicelli (6)
19 At great cost but in a sincere way (6)
21 On a Latin translation of the country (8)
23 Demure copy of ‘No Parking’ (3)
24 Old official ever about to have a point (5)
25 Such icons are a bit fashionable (4)
26 Shrub, growing out of Maoism (6)
27 A day with a few problems could just gradually disappear (4,4)
28 Kitchen device to get grime shifted (3,5)
29 Quantity of Viburnum berries (6)

DOWN

2 Howl at the lease change to a middle price (9)
3 It isn’t said to contaminate (5)
4 Quiet Marx, above a ropey spear (7)
5 Barrel for the up and coming nut? (3)
6 Women’s headgear in a cob and spam sandwich (7)
7 Igor, in limbo sadly, in an embarrassing situation (9)
8 Hand over foot at the cobblers? (5)
13 Make it better, hence an alteration needed (7)
16 Bear might get to forty on channel vessel (9)
18 Create aid, in order to wipe out (9)
20 Sail to the extremity? (7)
22 Dare not criminally oppress (5,2)
23 Film that’s just about Heather (5)
25 Assertion of one in a mollusc! (5)
27 First and foremost it’s a tree (3)