Christmas Prize Crossword 2023
ACROSS
11 Remove secret ban, uranium found in French city wine (8,9)
12 Goodness, go wrong inside like revellers? (5)
14 Stylus on festive tree (6)
15 CS Lewis character in Christmas lantern (5)
16 Changed into a suit for job (9)
17 Swallowed up off the coast of Mexico? (8)
19 Chap has name for spelling group (5)
21 Sounds like bad weather, sweetheart, for sleigh-puller (8)
23 Sign of common illness just after midday? Get lost! (7)
24 Get ready, keeping old sort of security device (7)
26 Liqueur from river city, not small (7)
30 Got near to iPhone extra, do reach out (10)
32 French girl outside a city in America (5)
33 Dense oxygen tubes replaced (6)
34 Maybe ponder as bird enters with winter animal? (4,7)
36 Daring time in December with you ending sour bust-up (11)
39 Quantity of wine for courage? (6)
41 Fruit meringue first brought in when Christmas is over? (5)
42 Then a grill cooked at insomniacs’ party? (3-7)
44 Disney production after thousand organs (7)
45 US city — meet me here in Christmas film (2,5)
46 Right to go by medical setback (7)
50 Lake separating wild Homeric member of the 13 Down (8)
52 Rig sound for Ricky’s comedy drama (5)
53 Begin race, moving shakily like a libertine (8)
54 Gold box given to artist by those in the pit (9)
56 Bomb’s framework (5)
57 Dorothy’s heartless pal (3,3)
59 Handy place to conceal small song (5)
60 More hangars rebuilt by boy comedian (6,11)
DOWN
1 Festive filbert unknown inside the ulna break (8)
2 Some blame a dark drink (4)
3 Bury girl with bloomers delivered at Christmas? (10)
4 Abandons son south of London thoroughfare (7)
5 They are animated by shifting warm dig, all at once (7,3,6)
6 One voice holding back Turkey’s location? (4)
7 Urges European to smash gongs (4,2)
8 Entrances around court for daytime programme (7)
9 Still one snowman? (4)
10 Curse nearby car for spilling topping (9,5)
13 Unimaginable cloak of three night visitors? (4)
18 Peacekeepers’ team roundly loosen (7)
20 Book’s cubic capacity (6)
22 Warehouse of French cannabis (5)
25 TV co-host scratched, say, different animal I knew (7,9)
27 A place for trunk up high (5) 28 Hundred help, as it’s relocating US wedding venues (7)
29 Left in despair — like Ebenezer? (7)
31 Two-in-one feature of Christmas show? (9,5)
35 Mournful lines, for example, in cathedral (5)
37 Uses 6 Down again concerning early rounds (7)
38 Home-based donor I unsettled (6)
40 Restorative for thickhead flipping coin (5)
43 Winter sport as kinetic motion? Grand (3-7)
47 Muslim leader to like Xmas cake ingredients (8)
48 Festive tinsel lacking last month’s speech (7)
49 Endeavour to cover one record of three books (7)
51 White mistletoe piece? (4)
52 Rising pay-off for sliding box (6)
55 Was able to be disheartened when nippy at Yuletide? (4)
56 Last of buses to rush into London district (4)
58 Jot down only four of the vowels? (4)