CHRISTMAS

Fill in the grid opposite using the different clues provided – explained below. Once completed, rearrange the letters in the shaded boxes to spell out the name of a Christmas carol. To enter, simply call the number and give your answer

Clues are of four kinds: 1 (OBC) – quotations from The Oxford Book Of Carols; 2 (GKN) – General Knowledge; 3 (ANA) – anagrams, with a hint or definition of the meaning; 4 (HID) – hidden words: a phrase contains a hidden word and a definition follows

ACROSS

1 (GKN) Largest Native American tribe federally recognised by the US, chiefly living in Oklahoma (8)

5 (OBC)“Though a child, eternity/-” (2,3,10)

15 (OBC) “Ye - all, on you I call/Come hear this declaration” (7) 16 (OBC) “We saw thee in thy balmy nest,/Bright Dawn of our - day!” (7) 17 (ANA) Decoration Ted and Norman put out (9)

18 (GKN) Golf course, especially one on undulating sandy ground near a

seashore (5) 19 (GKN)

(and typically Artificial inferior); German, literally ‘replacement’ (6)

20 (OBC)

“Where I with friends around me/May lay my

- down”

(6) 21 (GKN)

Small spiked wheel attached to the neck, or shank, of a spur (5)

23 (GKN) Form taken by Michael Keaton’s character in the 1998 fantasy film Jack Frost (7)

24 (OBC) “The - Gabriel from God/ Was sent to Galilee” (5)

26 (GKN) Bill Murray’s co-star, left, in the 1988 film Scrooged (5,5) 29 (GKN)

Roman god of doorways and passages, usually depicted with two faces looking forward and backward (5)

31 (ANA) Pert lag? He disentangled wire (9)

33 (GKN) Evergreen Australian tree of the family Proteaceae cultivated for its