Possible Clues:

• Country not celebrating Christmas?
• Really bad film
• Fixed course back to island republic
• Place for the bird that might be 20 down
• Where one might begin to turn, then turn it in the lock and gobble it
• Succulent bird or play flop
• Part of the Christmas meal is a complete failure
• Where one might talk business for Christmas
• A failed play or a seasonal bird
• Eurasian republic