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