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Cap this holiday by breaking up with Chaka Khan (8)

Composite anag
Chaka Khan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_vWMqirjhI

Initially Hong Kong kahunas kicked ass and put out the lights (8)

Funny Greek character starts to keep kosher and halal for eight crazy nights (8)

Ha! Nu + K K A H

Reference may be US-only

CHANUKAH

Chinese Charlie leads the UK and old Hawaii back to a festival (8)

The original state abbreviation for Hawaii was HA . Back turns this to AH.

CHAN UK AH

(Feel a bit odd posting for this after this weeks events but kudos to Darla for drawing attention to it)

Tea with a hunk could be illuminating (8)

Using spelling CHANUKAH

Norwegian group mix a little pineapple into festival (8)

AHA CHUNK*

At first Koppel's huge kahunas kicked ass and put out the lights (8)

Around the UK, Indian food can get hot for a festival (8)

CHAN(UK)A H

If it's not treading on Buddy's toes

First and foremost, commemorating Hebrew ancestors' noble uprising, keeping alive hope' (8)

[As an aside… if like me, you lose sleep over the directionality of link words (I’m not joking), then this may prove a useful new resource from the Clue Clinic. Still in development but definitely worth a read.]

https://clueclinic.com/index.php/link-expressions/