Bex's Christmas Crossword 2023

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Across
  1. 2. Rucksack wearing Detective who’s stuck in the past (3, 5, 4)
  2. 6. Your pro tennis player friend (5, 7)
  3. 8. Beeston’s premier new concealed café (3, 8)
  4. 9. Swine submarine book that we have read approximately 18 million times in the last few weeks (6, 7, 7)
  5. 14. Rash that Mabel was covered in on one of your first nights away!
  6. 17. Where we’re all friends (5, 4)
  7. 20. The only place where the Flum-Flum tree grows
  8. 22. Me. Always five steps behind you, Ma’am.
  9. 23. Your favourite food. Apparently. (7, 7)
  10. 24. Her second movie obsession
  11. 25. Her first movie obsession
  12. 26. Sausage dog who should be helping with lie-ins, but isn’t really pulling its weight
Down
  1. 1. Axel Scheffler’s best pal (5, 9)
  2. 3. The most invigorating way to start the day (4, 4)
  3. 4. He found his way back to the family tree
  4. 5. Better than Wimbledon (10, 4)
  5. 7. ‘Badly behaved’ dead cat
  6. 10. Game changing forward now back to Marseille (6, 6)
  7. 11. Tortured genius with a penchant for M&S Scones (6, 9)
  8. 12. The driest, but most exciting purchase of my year
  9. 13. Rainy weekend haunt where they’re surely convinced that I’m diabetic (6, 5)
  10. 15. High needs bunny for whom something’s always wrong
  11. 16. My parenting hero. So calm, so measured.
  12. 18. Gay illustration class in expensive shop (5, 4, 7)
  13. 19. Pair who keep Mabel entertained. Nauseating theme tune (3, 3, 4)
  14. 21. Where we taught a 1-year-old how to gamble
  15. 23. West End show to which you must know all the words by now…