Giant Boxing Day Cryptic Crossword
ACROSS
1. Tot needing doctor in the morning (4) 4. Youth leader following episode showing celebration (5) 7. It’s wintry at present in the borders of Surrey (5) 10. A Catholic, hot, finding curved structure (4) 12. Fruit, very soft, put in drink (5) 14. Number of geese-a-laying in South - nine? (3) 15. Edible internal parts, bad, foundnexttoalake(5) 17. US soldier beside fort with small presents (5) 20. Tipsy, many blunder before end of party (5) 21. A receptacle slightly open (4) 23. Somehow catch Rob with bit from Scrooge’s clerk (3, 8) 24. Imitation of Conservative in English house (4) 26. Essential, it’s secured by woman (5) 27. Some of our band living in a city (5) 28. Publication - one showing wise men (4) 29. A win once more (5) 30. Father initially used it with orange, eg. (5) 31. Soon to be seen in German one (4) 32. Burnt remains the man found on board a ship (5) 37. Flavour of sample (5) 39. New tie on Tory in disrepute (9) 42. Number of wise men using ether, possibly (5) 43. Chair making head of school scoff (4) 44. Yearn for tree (4) 45. Man returning to verse in cracker (5) 48. Metal cutter drudge spotted (7) 52. One inside is only destroyed loudly (7) 53. Oak found in street (4) 55. Point taken by the astute (4) 57. Cookie - Cub is breaking it (7) 60. Stray ox used in mass departure (6) 62. Ten getting hold of satisfactory gift voucher (5) 63. A District Attorney grasping information from business programme (6) 65. Bill found beside the French piece of furniture (5) 67. Helpful hints given by head of year, slightly drunk (5) 68. Skinflint, married, is seen with the queen (5) 69. Ring found in street unexpectedly with award made of ribbon (7) 70 and 91 Across. Christmas pastries with spice - mine crumbled (5, 4) 72. Woman from the Tyneside area follows one about (5) 73. Relative from East entering French resort (5) 75. Man seen after class with clergyman (6) 77. Dark French one left with it (5) 78. Number in good health for Christmas (6) 83. Reindeer quietly raced about in front of the queen (7) 84. Cigarette remnant in second bath (4) 85. Strip of cloth son found next to tree (4) 87. Fundamental nature of scenes rewritten by egghead (7) 88. Holder of unorthodox opinion spilling the rice (7) 90. Head off male ducks with long-handled implements (5) 91. See 70 Across 92. Fruit, soft, left with hesitation (4) 94. See, eg, wild web-footed birds (5) 95. From Bern, carry unusually sour fruit (9) 99. Girl in Christmas song (5) 102. Quiet worker with ring in theatrical entertainment (5) 104. Small distance covered by thin child (4) 105. Calm bit being heard (5) 106. Stable trader’s stand (5) 107. Monstrous person making the queen go back (4) 108. Cake coating used by comic in Germany (5) 110. Ringing instruments burglars initially sell off (5) 111. Large room, hot, used by everyone (4) 113. Spin out boss’s new pantomime (4, 2, 5) 114. Cold bone in small bed (4) 115. Get us in trouble with visitor (5) 117. Ancient language left on a vessel (5) 119. One woman getting hold of second edition (5) 120. Addadram(3) 121. Change made later, possibly (5) 122. Celebrity in street with a royal (4) 123. Relish showing impudence (5) 124. Enclosure containing many a nut (5) 125. Labels, small, found next to children’s game (4)
DOWN
2. Fruit needed by Vera is inside (7) 3. Dull-sounding coaster (3) 4. Quiet listener with fruit (4) 5. Boot gang out with sledge (8) 6. Upset US soldier in vehicle with cheroot (5) 8. Short aborigine - one with extremely tiny Christmas picture (8) 9. Short rustic’s pair of oxen (4) 10. Beer identified in a French article (3) 11. Present, say, of fruit (7) 13. Quiet woman with manuscript of sacred songs (6) 16. Quantity for a horse for riding (6) 18. Text of film for comedian initially in new strip (6) 19. Panic about Conservative being hard to find (6) 22. Obliging people finding hair product in a new shop firstly (6) 25. Democrat on board vessel with the French light (6) 33. Leading lady finding two drugs (7) 34. Egghead entering quickly for banquet (5) 35. Tale initially about king’s long journey (4) 36. Holy person in satin, perhaps (5) 38. Day mother catches us up getting fruit (7) 40. Different topless parent (5) 41. From strange lot we get cloth for drying (5) 42. From containers, the Spanish Christmas decoration (6) 46. Start showing old-fashioned group (6) 47. Head of school was first to find this sleigh (4) 49. Caring loser becoming a Christmas vocalist (5, 6) 50. Things I lent out for Carol (6, 5) 51. Drink making us complain audibly (4) 54. Royal taken in by socialist with animal - Robin (9) 56. Christmas visitors keeping quiet in her sheds, perhaps (9) 58. Flightless bird given to Chris, possibly (7) 59. Fee for father and unknown fellows appearing on time (7) 61. Oily fruit wicked head of organisation lifted (5) 64. Recess head of history found in pleasant surroundings (5) 66. It’s before some of the resits (3) 67. Number involved in christening (3) 71. Meat salesman turning up with food basket (6) 74. Feel very cold and become motionless (6) 75. Crisp biscuit from decorated cardboard cylinder? (7) 76. Sway about with Spanish article (4) 79. I sew replacement, being sensible (4) 80. Lamp left before ten ran off (7) 81. Hate some drab horses (5) 82. Head of organisation, Mark, getting award (5) 84. Confection, small, found in street (5) 86. Devout learner inside with Christmas decoration (5) 89. English boy beside school initially declines (4) 91. Father, Catholic, with the Spanish package (6) 93. Trough making many rage (6) 95. Angelic rich Cub upset about Ecstasy (8) 96. Approach and speak to a Conservative over price (6) 97. Deserter - one on allowance (6) 98. Giving Lee duty, I ruined the Christmas season (8) 100. A Conservative nobleman’s report (7) 101. Lamps of little weight - small (6) 102. Quiet English bachelors with the French stone (6) 103. Informing strange gent, ill (7) 109. Pry, finding first of sons with no work (5) 112. One taken in by the French false statements (4) 114. Group of families left on board vessel (4) 116. Title of knight - one accepted by sister (3) 118. Paintings seen in Dartmouth (3)