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Across
  1. 5. Delivered his 2024 New Year address from the NCC
  2. 7. HVM Catapult's principal HQ office
  3. 10. The hotel chain gave a sustained and enthusiastic response
  4. 12. Non-metallic and tetravelent element makes 0.025% of earth's crust
  5. 14. Am unturfing AC, maybe I'm mixed up
  6. 15. Science-based Cambridge serial entrepreneur whose recommendations led to the creation of the Catapults
  7. 17. The supply chain programme everyone wants to copy
  8. 18. UK position on the league table of global manufacturers
Down
  1. 1. This section of the weekly brief
  2. 2. The Commons' Business and Trade Committee Chair
  3. 3. The legislative body of government
  4. 4. Does this politicians name make him more scared of banana skins or carbon emissions?
  5. 6. The Lightest element
  6. 8. Dividing output by hours worked is one measure
  7. 9. Make UK say 99% of manufacturers want one
  8. 11. Transformed location of famous industrial skirmish at coking plant
  9. 13. The department for fiscal events
  10. 16. Alan Anderson's prickly friends