Cryptic crossword No 3,398
Special Instructions: NOT INTENDED TO BE SOLVED, JUST UPLOADING SOME OLD XWORDS SINCE I'M NEW HERE. Xmas Xword 2024 (Dec 24, 2024) – The first letters of the non-thematic clues reveal a festive message. Clues aren't the best (partly due to the acronym and 'early setter syndrome').
Across
- Exact location of 13's guiding light (2,3,4)
- *One of nine at university arrested by police (5)
- Assistant regularly uses eBay, showing disregard (4,2)
- *One of nine (boy) illuminated form of Buddhism (7)
- *Malfunctioning satnav restricted courier (5)
- Merry one is glad to get by (9)
- Resting general bitten by snake (6)
- *Reindeer leader resolving hold-up (7)
- Xanthe, ultimately leaving cool praise, reviewed citadel (9)
- Axe beset with clear diamonds imposed too great a strain (9)
- Receiver of sound hairpiece finds insect (6)
- Yapping essentially spreads – somehow slides – and scatters (7)
- Multi-act show's criticism is heard (5)
- Say, king's devotion when replacing leader (7)
- *One of nine comes Thursday instead of Sunday (5)
- *One of nine: academic nerd mostly (6)
Down
- Appropriate, say, being taken into A&E for trifle (9)
- Produce problem children (5)
- *One of nine, archdeacon, carries single cross (5)
- Ringing of a bell (welcoming first of December) could come from a bike (5)
- Y's successor meets current team breaking code for white compound (4,5)
- No – put away and tidy up! (6)
- End kinda irks buff of Sherlock Holmes at first (6)
- Wasting disorder observed when Darcy emptied small cup (9)
- Yankee ignored trite story about coffee (9)
- Expose to ridicule: tablet (old, vacuous remedy) (7)
- *One of nine, the German, is tackling tree (6)
- *One of nine quietly ran by cold queen (7)
- Prepared herb tea? Take in the air (7)
- Hurricane maybe part of tempest or monsoon (5)
- *One of nine raced madly around Pole (6)
- Arrangement of red LEDs displaying 10 perhaps (7)
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