Across
- 4. Formal name for cute male root vegetable (2, 6)
- 8. What Mabel gets VERY excited about every morning in December (6, 8)
- 10. Brain of Britain nursery co-manager
- 12. Co-op employee who always demonstrates outstanding customer service
- 14. Who’s Facebook page constantly shows pictures of pre-schoolers (6, 8)
- 16. Person you’re completely obsessed with (5, 6)
- 19. Beeston’s best Sunday morning location (3, 6)
- 20. The first thing we must switch on in the morning (9, 4, 6)
- 23. What Mabel spent hours in during summer (3, 5)
- 24. What I recommend we eat for dinner about once a week (4, 2, 3, 4)
- 25. What your money does if it doesn’t “jiggle jiggle”
- 27. What Mabel loves to do before her bath. “Aaaaahhhh…” (5, 3, 5)
- 29. Our house’s nickname (seriously, stop getting deliveries) (3, 7, 6)
Down
- 1. The thing I am regularly, and wrongly, accused of moving all the time (6, 7)
- 2. Nice café. Truly dreadful customer service (7, 6)
- 3. My favourite place in Beeston. Also frequented by homeless drunks (7, 7)
- 5. Beeston’s best little Italian (1, 5)
- 6. Name of the beach onto which we upended our baby, face first into the sand
- 7. Where I wore a dressing gown in public (4, 4, 3)
- 9. Dean & Nora kept receiving letters from this person (3, 7)
- 11. Bereaved insomniac who bought our old wardrobe on Facebook Marketplace
- 13. Three-toothed inept plumber’s assistant with a little bit very posh in-laws
- 15. Your least favourite, but all the pundits’ favourite footballer (6, 5)
- 17. Spanish beach resort/ construction site
- 18. Shop with a terrible, terrible name (8, 3, 6)
- 20. Money we didn’t know was available until we’d missed out on about a grand (5, 7, 8)
- 21. Typically an illness for cows & pigs that Mabel (and every other child) got from nursery (4, 4, 3, 5)
- 22. “No Mum left behind”
- 26. Rob Bargh’s latest creation from tanalised wood
- 28. Boutique hotel where we sat in the dark from 7pm (3, 3)