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Welcome to our festive cryptic crossword! First solve the puzzle 鈥� and don鈥檛 worry, it works just like a regular one. Then create a syzygy (you may need scissors). Now find the work of genius written across the circle.

RADIAL (towards the centre)

1 Age certainly leads to oblivion (7)

2 Display relish container after I entered into transaction (8)

3 Locks out the queen鈥檚 assassin (6)

4 Procure army to acquire Australia, for example (8)

5 Otherwise, it is in Chelsea? (4)

6 Get out of French bay (6)

7 Foreign poem in old notes (8)

8 Illinois rotarian goes out to reveal twisting motion (7)

10 Evenly groomed eggs (3)

11 I鈥檓 part criminal. It is a ticklish area (6)

12 Hawaiian island sounds a bit like communist China (4)

13 Refined male fish (7)

15 Mother-of-pearl cultivation in Northern area (5)

16 No new regional moral principles (5)

20 Artificial hybrid shocks purist almost completely (5)

24 Terribly thirsty? Help yourself (3, 4)

25 Characters like C-3PO? (7)

26 Confused stray faun (5)

27 A country with carbon capture insight (6)

28 Glad it panned out without gravity affecting water level (5)

29 Removed cover letter concerning mouse wee (5)

31 Double contraction doctor originally dealt with very elegantly (6)

32 One mixture an assistant takes for sleep disorder (6)

33 Noble in sad UK exile (4)

35 Colour strand (6)

39 Once you heard break-in at the intended time (2, 3)

40 Spouts joke with a twist in its tail (4)

42 Types of family members on Nintendo console (5)

44 A revolutionary yearning (4)

45 State my hollow innuendo (4)

50 Having three core doctrines (3)

RING (clockwise)

6 Question mark over hubby鈥檚 regular losses (5)

9 Medic bringing Mae West a vision (5)

14 Displaying incompetence in record time (5)

17 Alien sunset: ravishing but redundant (11)

18 An America where food runs out? (4)

19 An immature animal hangs upside down? (4)

21 Back around the clock party bar (5)

22 Smell of opening grave (5)

23 Which loom audibly produces some energy? (4-4)

28 Spins the small pots (5)

30 Careful new beard design (2, 6)

34 German city painter one gets into (6)

35 No salami salad for painted lady (4, 4)

36 Taste detective鈥檚 reflux (3)

37 Sequence of redirections rerouted journey (4)

38 As a result, monotheist sounds out alcohol (4)

41 IKEA and I try cooking Japanese dishes (8)

43 Hymn I introduced to relieve the terminal boredom (6)

44 A royal heir鈥檚 criminal act (5)

46 Vote for King Charles I amid concerning current affairs (8)

47 Stood, fired and looted (9)

48 Like the planets, boycott every other alien (5)

49 Gouache artist shows spirit (5)

51 Ceremonial, trite, and also not well-hidden (8)

52 Remarked on these sail parts (5)

53 They haven鈥檛 shelled paradise (6)

54 Ruin pamper like a child (5)

55 Stop time (6)

56 Put off opening of the game boxes (5)

57 Newspaper closest to The Sun? (7)

58 Fly off settee (6)

59 Top hominid chromosome (4)

60 North American tax agency circles what French ring brought up (8)

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Answers to this crossword and quick crossword #47 below