| EASTERPRESENTS | The first Faberge egg sold in 23 Years went for $30.2 million at a Dec. 2 Auction at Christie's; the 50 in existence were originally commissioned by Russian czars as these |
| BILLBEAUMONT | England rugby union captain who in 1980 led them to their first Grand Slam in 23 years (4,8) |
| ASMARA | Capital city in eastern Africa (pop 1 million), at a height of 7,628 feet (6) |
| DECADE | Ten years went down the drain, it's said (6) |
| THEEASTERBARNEY | Purple-and-yellow dino? (eggs sold separately) |
| TSAR | The first Faberge egg was created for one |
| APT | Like the name Eve, for a Dec. baby |
| DECEASED | Dead month at the end of the year went slowly |
| ROTHKO | Artist whose Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange) sold for $36.5m at Bunny Mellon's estate sale auction at Sotheby's New York in 2014 (6) |
| SALCOMBE | Search among the auction at a place in Devon (8) |
| SELLINGPLATE | Get rid of a dish by auction at Aintree, say (7,5) |
| PAPERSHREDDER | Minutes after a Banksy painting sold for $1.4 million at auction in 2018, one of these, which the artist had hidden in the frame, destroyed it |
| WARRIOR | 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat that sold for $41.8 million at Christie's in Hong Kong in 2021(7) |
| APU | "The Simpsons" character who graduated first in his class of seven million at the Calcutta Institute |
| STEVEWRIGHT | English radio broadcaster who presented his show in the Afternoon for 12 years on BBC Radio 1 and 23 years on BBC Radio 2 (5,6) |
| MURDERSHEWROTE | In a 1994 episode of this show, the titular character helps locate a stolen Faberge egg |
| OSAKA | City of 2 1/2 million at the mouth of the Yodo River |
| EMIN | Artist whose Turner Prize- nominated My Bed installation sold for £2.54m at Christie's auction (4) |
| ANDOVER | In Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, the first murder is in this Hampshire town (7) |
| EMO | Wacky comic Philips whose next shows are in Baltimore on Dec. 2 and Indianapolis on Dec. 6 |
