Advent Crossword 2024
One or two clues are released each day in Advent. The finished grid has a hidden message - can you find it?
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Across
1. I count out the centre in European democracy (5)
4. Refuge taken from greasy lumps (6)
9. Narcotic informally being carried by bike, we hear (5)
10. Large oxygen supply for woody tissue (7)
11. Picked broken nose after church (6)
12. Chap in front, find a backbone! (3,2)
13. Social outcast on file is shredded (2,4)
15. Released on December 24. (6)
17. Award for reversible heat fabrication material (5)
19. Satisfy parking rental contract (6)
22. Released on December 23. (7)
23. Guide richer leader out (5)
24. Sean Connery's complaint about performer's routine (6)
25. Makes pots on the radio (5)
Down
1. African hiding in big box (4)
2. Old local hospital struggling for mild analgesic (7)
3. Keep switching between small toys (5)
5. Hermit? Not the last one to be a wise man (7)
6. Sign in new company's chosen image, at first (3,2)
7. Horse with no tail rearing up in temper at photographic equipment (7)
8. New gravy ingredient first seen in southern county (4)
13. Extras that could cause a problem for lottery draw. (2,5)
14. Agitated, confused crafting's no good (7)
16. Sounds like a crack chess player (7)
18. Out in front, this light is dawn (5)
19. Vegetables from Ecuador, Peru and Spain (initially) (4)
20. Discharge former partner you'd sounded out (5)
21. Released on December 22. (4)
