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Across
  1. 2. You'll be jumping for joy in this extra long year
  2. 4. Love interest of Billy Dunn
  3. 8. Arthur Conan Doyle was also born today, creator of which famous detective?
  4. 11. She just wants to go back to 1999
  5. 14. Victor ____, author of 'Les Miserables', died 140 years ago today
  6. 15. "E. Collins! Who are you wearing tonight?"
  7. 16. The Norse titan of the sun and Florida
  8. 17. "Not like ____, not like ____, and DEFINITELY not like ____ ."
Down
  1. 1. The greatest liberated hobbit of our time
  2. 3. Leo Woodall loves the number 29 because it is...
  3. 5. Which US president patented a boat-lifting device on this day in 1849?
  4. 6. We need to talk about... your fave who is leaving Man City
  5. 7. Surname of a half-woman with a lot of 'substance'
  6. 9. Which planet takes 29 years to orbit the sun?
  7. 10. The Italian Eurovision mouse granted 12 ____ points to the UK
  8. 12. Victoria Ratliff's most feared natural disaster
  9. 13. No women allowed in the coolest football club in FPL