| GOOSEBERRY | Fruit grown competitively in clubs across the UK in a tradition that originated in the 18th century (10) |
| STOCKING | An item hung up on Christmas Eve to be filled with fruit, nuts or coins; a tradition that developed |
| IDIOM | I had isolated part of the UK, in a manner of speaking (5) |
| OUTSWAM | Did better competitively in the pool |
| BOLERO | Spanish dance in triple time that originated in the 18th century (6) |
| SLUGLETTUCE | ___ and ___: a popular chain of bar restaurants across the UK, and particularly in the south and east (4,7) |
| NATIONWIDE | Idea in town broadcast across the UK, perhaps (10) |
| MUNICH | European city including part of UK in a good deal (6) |
| BURDENED | Return to club across narrow valley, carrying a heavy load (8) |
| DAINTREERIVER | Northern banker carries golf club across famed course (8,5) |
| PERUKE | New peer seen around the United Kingdom in a wig (6) |
| INEBRIATES | Drunkards see Britain in a different light (10) |
| SIXPENCE | Silver item placed in a Christmas pudding on Stir-up Sunday as a token of good fortune in a tradition popularised by Prince Albert (8) |
| COINS | Collected in numismatics. metal discs minted from flans which are seasonally emulated as foil-wrapped chocolates in a tradition derived from the legend of St Nicholas (5) |
| BLUES | Music that originated in the Deep South of the USA in the late 19th Century (5) |
| STOCKINGS | Items of hosiery into which small gifts are deposited on Christmas Eve in a tradition thought to derived from the legends of Saint Nicholas (9) |
| RAGTIME | A kind of jazz piano music that originated in the U.S. in the early 1900s (7) |
| CRYPTIC | Type of crossword puzzle that originated in the UK in the 1920s (7) |
| TURKEYS | Gallinaceous snooded gobblers, jakes, jennies, toms and stags forming rafters and customarily eaten at Christmas in a tradition started by Henry VIII and further popularised by Edward VII (7) |
| RUGBY | Contested at the Six Nations Championship between England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and France, one of the sports or games that originated in the UK (5) |
