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Darn! Your Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is bigger than ours.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/word-of-the-year-gif-oxford_n_2119349.html

Paraphrasing mrw...what a clusters???! That American enuff? X

Times 4, aristo! and a lot more interesting:-))

The attempts to deport Abu Qatada is a good example. (12)

Aristo and BBM2: can I please have explanations for your clues at posts 26 and 27. I need another doh! moment.

Here goes , please be careful with that poker !

order = OM (Order of Merit)
returns in = NI ("in" backwards)
fraudulent = SHAM (by defn. , not anagrind !)
ritual cut short = BLES(sing)

major scandal is the defn. here (the bbc etc)

Total catastrophe as they banish most elms ruthlessly, with tree surgeon initially not involved (12)

Simon lurches into hospital, then wanders out in total confusion (12)

When Odysseus came home to Ithaca he found his house in disorder; if he came back home again he would find...modern Greece, which certainly qualifies as omnishambles. Not overly subtle: shambles/madhouse after omni/all.