Across
- 2. Loose degree of measurement – an obsessive keeps “____’s” of the stuff.
- 3. Nearly the institute that rewards quality acting in the UK
- 5. Booker-award winning “meaning of life” novel, dramatised this year/ Irrational number
- 6. What many managers (of any degree) having started getting an awful lot, “the_____”
- 10. Actor to have won big at Evening Standard British Theatre awards
- 12. Character in psychadelic, children’s, pre-school programme
- 14. Collapsing, continent-wide currency
- 15. Ammount of goals England scored in knockout stages of this year’s Euro 2012
- 16. Arguably the new “third-party” of Britain
- 18. Retired Aussie test captain
- 20. Country with world’s seventh-largest economy and, very nearly, worst wealth spread
- 21. A famous family; of whom both a wedding and a conception were announced this year
- 23. Winner of this year’s Nobel prize for literature
Down
- 1. Term increasingly replaced by the word “Chav”
- 2. First British winner of Tour De France
- 4. Where you don’t want to buy Christmas turkey… but can’t help it
- 7. the trademark of an, also masked, “hero” who celebrated the completion of his live-action trilogy of blockbusters this year
- 8. Disgraced former editor of the News of the World
- 9. Cricketer-turned-boxer
- 11. Exam board who came under fire for changing percentage grade-boundaries for English GCSE exams
- 13. Poet whose death’s octenary was marked this year
- 17. Facebook equivalent of a Blackberry messenger “ping”
- 19. Alledgedly a racist, certainly an adulterer
- 22. Caramel and crisp-cereal chocolate bar
- 24. Company that provide help in the event of a motoring emergency