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Across

1: The rope’s gone missing? Caroline didn’t like it, anyway! (3,4,5)

8: Ross would like the Band to play more of this (4)

9: 19th word of carol number 34! (5)

10: What Charles’s grandfather might have called an Eb bass (9)

13: Alud’s guide to a happy band – rule #1 Rehearsals must be ___ (3)

14: __ the Left: the march we used to play all the time (2)

17: What Catryn did when she should have bitten her tongue (7)

18: Vital piece of carolling equipment that we manage to do without (4)

19: The closest our sixth-form students will get to being perfect (7)

20: She didn’t proceed very far! (4)

24: Paid a brief visit in 2000 before scurrying off to the Waun!! (3)

26: Tony doesn’t wiggle one any more (8)

Down

1: A notier bum plays a percussion instrument (10)

2: Pencil two notches harder than recommended by Laurence (2)

3: Double bass is pitched in Bb; ‘tuba’ is pitched in __ (2)

4: Animal found on Band website (4)

5: Essential item of carolling clothing (5)

6: Instrument you’d play if you belonged to the self-proclaimed best section in the band (4)

7: The friend of Snow White resembled by half the Band (5)

9: Where we play on Christmas Eve (3)

11: Did they bring us good luck for the Eisteddfod? (7)

12: Where the National Finals are this year (6)

14: A bent Rio wouldn’t be much good at football but he could take up playing this instead! (8)

15: Thpeech problem tackled by Sergeant Sheep (4)

16: Tempo preferred by Austin? (7)

20: Start over – as you would if a CD track wasn’t up to scratch (4)

22: Body part that should be touching the instrument for optimum performance (3)

23: Another of Laurence’s talents (3)

25: What the video camera wasn’t for our promotion-winning performance of ‘Metropolis’(2)

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