The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 100,006 - Dec 25 2014

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Always hampering a take-off APERY
and 20 Across: Stable environment in a city 9 ultimately destroyed NATIVITY
Christmas is terrible, admits nurse SISTER
Clever lawyer on beer -- beer drinking good LEGALEAGLE
Close to Christmas Eve, gran and author won't get on -- badly-spoken greeting here? SEVENANDEIGHT
Country areas, 14 in them AMERICA
Do it when one couple embraces IMITATE
Dry casing fit for iPad? TABLET
Empty, very apt if mobile shows charging PAYTV
Fool's representation in sort of dictionary IDIOTICON
Get and attempt to get very cold WINTRY
Honour them, Lord EMMY
How we await New Year, eg, saving last bit of coal? EAGERLY
It has horns -- no growth isn't long enough NILGAI
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Location of thin line on rugby pitch TWENTYTWO
Neck is minute, breaking as a consequence ISTHMUS
Note this, oddly, in stuffed bird CAPTION
Path unclear, perhaps I will follow a star ALPHACENTAURI
Perfect voice UTTER
Sailor in Eire supported by a new club member ROTARIAN
See 3 Down SCENE
Sleep before Christmas or New Year? It's hard to get up EVEREST
Small sweets I chose to crunch, about 200 CHOCCIES
Something keeps this water down THIN
Throws up eating mince pie? Come on! STEPITUP
Toy piano -- a nightly medley! PLAYTHING
Turning heads, isn't a cracker the reason yob appears? BACKSLANG
Wants to limit one call for surges in illegality CRIMEWAVES