Inventor who spent Christmas holding a bottle opener? (5)

I believe the answer is:

nobel

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'inventor' is the definition.
(Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite)

'spent christmas holding a bottle opener?' is the wordplay.
'spent christmas' becomes 'noel' (Noel can mean Christmas. I am not sure about the 'spent' bit.).
'holding' indicates putting letters inside.
'opener?' indicates taking the first letters (I've seen 'openers' mean this).
The first letter of 'bottle' is 'b'.
'noel' going around 'b' is 'NOBEL'.

'who' is the link.

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(Other definitions for nobel that I've seen before include "Dynamite inventor, Prize founder" , "and 21 Across: Prestigious international award" , "Swedish prize-giver" , "Alfred --, international prize founder" , "Prize-endowing Swedish chemist" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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