Welcome to our festive cryptic crossword! First solve the puzzle – and don’t 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’s 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…
