The Times - Cryptic - Online Christmas Day Jumbo 2015 - December 25, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Online Christmas Day Jumbo 2015 Crossword Puzzle Solution - December 25, 2015

Clues	Answers
"Presents" for the minister of wine and socks?	REDBOXES
A low grade publication, conversely, that aids culture	AGAR
A number of spare men in eastern drilling platform alongside	ELEANORRIGBY
Art gallery's not large, but stocking English works	OEUVRES
Articles worthy of Observer listing NATO's constituents in wrong order?	NOTANDA
Aspire to collect gold rings and cents: a fortune?	HOROSCOPE
Audibly barracks crowds making cross channel shopping trip?	BOOZECRUISE
Awfully noble gesture at last by Virgin in London station	MARYLEBONE
Being led out of general view?	PRIVATELIFE
Bill with present: books and a sticker	ADHERENT
Bounder's gaudy seasonal gift?	JUMPER
Boxing Day's large beer to dish out	LADLE
Candle delivered by Santa personally	TAPER
Carelessly left eye drop to spread out again	REDEPLOY
Carol under tender supervision	WHILESHEPHERDSWATCHED
Destroy alga largely covering apple	ROYALGALA
Fairy up here, unusually, in a pickle?	GUMTREE
Female cops shed alias, dispensing with tips	OPHELIA
Film, not the most popular feature of Christmas Day TV?	QUEENSSPEECH
Flaming link oddly is opening and not closing!	ALLNIGHT
Fruit grew with it	ROSEHIP
Gall, putting stuffing ingredient on cooker	SAGEAPPLE
Girl called after Christmas?	NOELE
Girl keeping old needles and things in wardrobe?	COATHANGERS
Happy clappers up for a carol? (4,4,7,2,4)	DINGDONGMERRILYONHIGH
Has the turkey I send gone off?	DINES
Honour Reagan: top charmer!	OBERON
I advanced in secret, without a sound	SILENTLY
Identical taverns with outsize appeal for old emperor	BARBAROSSA

Clues	Answers
Landscape art re-established partially in present setting	PEARTREE
Lastly, star to go at top of tree? Hardly!	ROOT
Like presents on day eleven, tho' strangely just out of oven?	PIPINGHOT
Lives on payments first and foremost from stepmother	SUBSISTS
Macho clichés rubbished drug treatment	CHEMICALCOSH
Member of team pulling together lawyers, female	DASHER
Not good to drink or to pull crackers with journalist	POLLUTED
Not like Cupid to be so defiant?	UNBOWED
Not to be paid too much	UNDUE
One dispensing seasonal greetings left and right, maybe, for old data recorders	CARDPUNCHES
Person losing head, upset, was obliged to hesitate	Umandah
Pet whose coat might be shredded?	MARMALADECAT
Philosopher's best friend Jack?	RUSSELL
Place of birth fixed	STABLE
Pompidou's one supporting politician Heath spontaneously	UNPROMPTED
Portals function as an alternative means	DOORWAYS
Pretty girl taking right work in line to carry out changes?	BELLROPE
Provided wrong song, alas	ASLONGAS
Report women's ceremony finished	WRITEUP
Returns, eg after ruin, reborn	RESURGENT
Runs from place of birth, creating disorder	MANGE
Seasonal religious service held by Irish writer Brown	CHRISTMASSY
See that great passion flower!	LOIRE
Some rotten fish and portion of fruit	MESOCARP
Sponge associated with messenger carrying glad tidings?	ANGELCAKE
Spotted place to get a kick out of a trip?	PENALTYAREA
Unusually rare, browny red fruit	ROWANBERRY
Very cheerful, we hear, and secure	SEWUP
Wise Men still mostly charmed	MAGICAL