Crossword

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Across
  1. 6. white powder, increasingly becoming a scarce commodity (5)
  2. 9. Sally Rooney novel adapted by the BBC (6,6)
  3. 10. common winter illness that Covid 19 is not (3)
  4. 12. controversial covering that may or may not reduce the risk of transmission (4,4)
  5. 16. name of the practice of staying 2m apart (6,10)
  6. 17. Tasha & Lucy's favourite breakfast (6,3)
  7. 19. temporary period of leave from employment, currently supported by the government at 80% of pay (8)
  8. 23. a difficult thing to bake, involving fermenting dough (9)
  9. 24. something the US president suggested could be injected to beat coronavirus (12)
Down
  1. 1. name for someone whose job is essential even during lockdown (3,6)
  2. 2. name of Boris Johnson's (latest) offspring (7)
  3. 3. Lucy's news anchor name (5,5)
  4. 4. supposedly wrote King Lear in quarantine (11)
  5. 5. misleading name of the 1918 pandemic (7,3)
  6. 7. the number of tests the UK promised to conduct by the end of April (3,7,8)
  7. 8. acronym for items used to reduce health and safety risks at work (3)
  8. 11. name of the pen used to mark off bingo numbers (6)
  9. 13. video-conferencing platform (4)
  10. 14. mathematical term indicating how contagious an infectious disease is (1,6)
  11. 15. your favourite Wednesday night activity (5)
  12. 17. colour of Oli's hair when dressed as weatherwoman Thomasina Schaferknicker (6)
  13. 18. 2011 film in which Gwyneth Paltrow starts a world-wide pandemic (9)
  14. 20. annoyingly perky Texan yoga instructor and online sensation (7)
  15. 21. author of La Peste (5)
  16. 22. former footballer turned conspiracy theorist (5,4)