Not The Saturday Prize Puzzle

NTSPP - 150 by Radler
A Christmas Puzzle

17 of the solutions (7 across and 10 down clues) could be preceded or (in one case) followed by the word “Christmas”.  The clues for those lack a definition, i.e. they comprise only the wordplay element.  The remaining 12 clues are normal.

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  •  7  Little jumper, not a pullover  (3)

  •  8  Roger ran tourism for Manila’s walled city  (10)

  • 10 Form of rebellion taking place  (6)

  • 11 Barrel manufactured without additives?  (4,4)

  • 12 Bolt joining international players’ team  (3,5)

  • 14 Lock Pole out  (6)

  • 16 Back issue  (4)

  • 17 F-flippant  (5)

  • 18 Fragment of shell in eggs  (4)

  • 19 Wild stags around. No worries  (6)

  • 21 One bringing out erotic film denied radio broadcast  (8)

  • 23 United at the outset then forcing to separate  (8)

  • 26 Ranking of trainee mathematician  (6)

  • 27 Respect promotion. Movement calls for grand exit  (10)

  • 28 Nearly always, (similarly true)  (3)

  • Down
  •  1  Pretence, except for last part  (10)

  •  2  Run away from the crowd, reportedly tired and sick?  (3-5)

  •  3  Dead on target, close to the centre  (6)

  •  4  Betrays trust when rejected  (4)

  •  5  Without concentrating, Virginia isn’t able to play regularly  (8)

  •  6/9  Feeling less whole  (6,3)

  • 13 Holy week heralds the start of Easter  (5)

  • 15 Apparently 'ughie 'as to, fed entirely fiction  (4,2,4)

  • 17 Last 5 rebels  (8)

  • 18 Do as father of Prince Charming said  (8)

  • 20 Model skirts, showing up cleavage  (6)

  • 22 Half of this deposit  (6)

  • 24 Characters transposed from Urdu perhaps  (3)

  • 25 Balls - squeeze together tightly!  (4)

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