Complete Clue List
Across
1. Quintessential Aussie Christmas desserts (8)
5. How sick you'll be if you have too much of the amber fluid (2,1,3)
10. Native Aussie Christmas trees? (7)
11. Christmas holiday from work (2,5)
12. "The Children were___ all snug in their beds" (7)
16. According to the song, this gets decked with boughs of wattle (4)
19. In short, the best time for 35A (4)
20. Slightly burn the snags? (5)
21. Small bottle of beer (6)
22. What the kids might do when tired and hungry (6)
24. Type of oil to grease the barbie (5)
25. Mixed Christmas spread, perhaps? (4)
27. Types of rusty vehicles driven by Santa in the outback (4)
30. Sweet dish to finish your Christmas lunch (7)
34. A fancy type of BBQ (7)
35. Game traditionally played in the backyard after lunch (7)
36. Pungent vegetable possibly found in 6D (6)
37. Santa's false friends? (8)
Down
1. Favourite Aussie seafood for Chrissie lunch (6)
2. Rain on Christmas Day will make the beach party not ___ (6)
3. Slice this to go with your snags on the barbie (5)
4. Places where some Aussies attend a church service (5)
6. A staple lunch dish to go with 1D (5)
7. Outback trader spreading Christmas cheer? (6)
8. "Pack the car and all SHOOT THROUGH, before the washing up" (4,4)
9. Summer spot for Christmas fun Down Under? (4)
13. Chucking the esky in 27A?simple, mate! (4,3)
14. Aussie term for the cold cans of amber fluid consumed by the menfolk (7)
15. Fancy name for sunnies (you'll need them) (7 or 3,4)
17. The normal weather temperature at Christmastime Down Under (3)
18. NSW town with a zoo for Santa's 'roos? (5)
19. What your French mate would say when leaving (5)
21. A hot and humid Christmas Day would be called this (8)
23. Expression of awe seeing a roo pulling the sleigh? (3)
26. What you need to keep the seafood cool. (3,3)
28. Aussieism for food, like Christmas fare (6)
29. Surfboard-riding men in red suits? (6)
30. Balconies, where you might have the barbie (5)
31. Dip taken by the kids and Uncle Bruce (4)
32. 'Host' handing out the Christmas presents, perhaps (5)
33. Wrist action to take the cap off the wine or beer (5)