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Congratulations to Maskarade for a very
interesting Christmas crossword, and this
proved a very worthy "locum tenens" for
Araucaria, who for many years served
readers well at holiday periods!
Could someone please tell me the
clue number that accompanies 5 Down -
Would this by any chance be 24 Down?
This was my only shortcoming.

17ac

I was a bit disappointed, actually - I thought that the theme made it much too easy.

26ac was my second in, but the last I associated with a composer, as I didn't think it was undefined - in fact I wondered for some time if the theme was going to be another crossword compiler one.

Thanks, ChrisE - wasn't familiar with that
one by him! The puzzle certainly kept me
out of mischief for a few hours, anyway!
Merry Christmas to you.