Bex's 'Best of' Crossword 2018-2022

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Across
  1. 4. 2020 Utterly delicious canapé (4, 5)
  2. 6. 2019 Where we nearly got a cat with AIDS (9, 4, 4)
  3. 9. 2021 NCT guide, not present at the birth
  4. 12. 2019 Offering school and wedding transport solutions since 1932 (7, 2, 9)
  5. 14. 2022 Three-toothed inept plumber’s assistant with a little bit very posh in-laws
  6. 15. 2018 Endurance challenge seemingly only ever undertaken in extreme heat or extreme cold
  7. 17. 2019 Ever-humming tool that keeps our flat (relatively) dry
  8. 19. 2019 5* hotel with brittle teapots (3, 3)
  9. 20. 2021 Business with the world’s worst ‘Sales Progression Team’ (6, 6)
  10. 22. 2022 Shop with a terrible, terrible name (8, 3, 6)
  11. 24. 2021 Knee-brace-wearing wife of an East Midlands celebrity (5, 5)
  12. 26. 2018 Floppy-haired, ivory-tickling, Esquire-reading crooner (3, 5)
  13. 27. 2020 Lewis’ favourite shop (1, 3, 1, 4, 8)
  14. 28. 2018 “THE GATEWAY TO LONDON”
  15. 29. 2018 He didn’t do it (6, 5)
  16. 30. 2022 Our house’s nickname (seriously, stop getting deliveries) (3, 7, 6)
  17. 34. 2018 Surprisingly wet and windy Greek island
  18. 35. 2020 Our micro-local (3, 10)
  19. 38. 2019 Montenegrin tourist destination for billionaires with yachts (and us) (5, 3)
  20. 39. 2018 Disease-riddled Bulgarian ski resort
  21. 40. 2022 Beeston’s best little Italian (1, 5)
  22. 41. 2018 The greatest MC in the galaxy
  23. 42. 2020 The only place to shop if you need a new desk (8, 11)
  24. 43. 2020 Mike & Lesley’s workplace (5, 9)
Down
  1. 1. 2022 Money we didn’t know was available until we’d missed out on about a grand (5, 7, 8)
  2. 2. 2020 Driving instructor. Dog trainer. Comedian.
  3. 3. 2021 Toothless, useless health visitor
  4. 5. 2018 Dustin, Oscar winning actor, OR inept manager and (very) part-time Occupational Therapist
  5. 7. 2021 Turns up. Does a poo. Does some joinery. Chronic hypertension (3, 5)
  6. 8. 2019 Workplace of Ross, 25, father-of-one, drug dealer (3, 5)
  7. 10. 2019 Seductive neck-bombing nut job. Total mental. (8, 5, 9)
  8. 11. 2020 Delicious fish paste from our minimoon (7, 5, 4)
  9. 13. 2020 Company that shafted us on last year’s Christmas Eve (7, 3, 4)
  10. 16. 2021 Stroppy sonographer
  11. 18. 2021 Painfully slow solicitor (4, 7)
  12. 21. 2022 What Mabel spent hours in during summer (3, 5)
  13. 22. 2019 Scottish detective who sounds English. Made swift recovery from severe spinal injury (5, 6)
  14. 23. 2020 Furry terrorist
  15. 25. 2018 Polish clothing company owner and all-round five-star knobhead (5, 7)
  16. 31. 2022 Bereaved insomniac who bought our old wardrobe on Facebook Marketplace
  17. 32. 2021 Typical Sunday haunt where you wait 20 minutes for a coffee (3, 6)
  18. 33. 2022 Name of the beach onto which we upended our baby, face first into the sand
  19. 36. 2018 Middle Eastern dip
  20. 37. 2022 Spanish beach resort/ construction site