What links (in a vaguely Yule-tide manner):

1. King Charles (I or II), Bohemian piety, a littoral hat-trick, small urban development on the West bank, and hedera helix with ilex aquifolium?
   (Christmas) Carols - Good King Wenceslas - I saw Three Ships - O Little Town of Bethlehem - The Holly and the Ivy
   
2. Steve Coogan, a disgruntled moan, a manual form of sexual harassment, a country in Europe and in Asia, a rude mechanical with a hard centre, and nothing at all?
   (Alan) Partridge - Grouse - Goose - Turkey - P(h)easant - Duck
   
3. John, Jack and Jim (where one is a pedestrian, one a lion-tamer and the third a spanner) to the Jaworskis?
   Johnnie Walker - Jack Daniels - Jim Beam - J&B
   
4. a lifting device, a trans-Atlantic conveyance, a pride of the Great Western, and an unreturnable opening play?
   Jack - Queen - King - Ace
   
5. Amtrak's finest, an epicurean gathering, the way in, and a more formal way in?
   American Express - Diners' Club - Access - Visa
   
6. long, dapper, and audible pelt?
   Pine - Spruce - Fir (fur)

Vn. 2.0 (26/11/96)