Christmas Quiz 2012 - Crossword Starter

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Across
  1. 2. Loose degree of measurement – an obsessive keeps “____’s” of the stuff.
  2. 3. Nearly the institute that rewards quality acting in the UK
  3. 5. Booker-award winning “meaning of life” novel, dramatised this year/ Irrational number
  4. 6. What many managers (of any degree) having started getting an awful lot, “the_____”
  5. 10. Actor to have won big at Evening Standard British Theatre awards
  6. 12. Character in psychadelic, children’s, pre-school programme
  7. 14. Collapsing, continent-wide currency
  8. 15. Ammount of goals England scored in knockout stages of this year’s Euro 2012
  9. 16. Arguably the new “third-party” of Britain
  10. 18. Retired Aussie test captain
  11. 20. Country with world’s seventh-largest economy and, very nearly, worst wealth spread
  12. 21. A famous family; of whom both a wedding and a conception were announced this year
  13. 23. Winner of this year’s Nobel prize for literature
Down
  1. 1. Term increasingly replaced by the word “Chav”
  2. 2. First British winner of Tour De France
  3. 4. Where you don’t want to buy Christmas turkey… but can’t help it
  4. 7. the trademark of an, also masked, “hero” who celebrated the completion of his live-action trilogy of blockbusters this year
  5. 8. Disgraced former editor of the News of the World
  6. 9. Cricketer-turned-boxer
  7. 11. Exam board who came under fire for changing percentage grade-boundaries for English GCSE exams
  8. 13. Poet whose death’s octenary was marked this year
  9. 17. Facebook equivalent of a Blackberry messenger “ping”
  10. 19. Alledgedly a racist, certainly an adulterer
  11. 22. Caramel and crisp-cereal chocolate bar
  12. 24. Company that provide help in the event of a motoring emergency