Instructions: Print out the grid (you can get a bigger version by clicking on the image) and fill in the answers. When you're done, take the twelve letters from the shaded boxes and rearrange them into a familiar phrase. Send this phrase to me here, and on January 5th I'll put all the correct entries into a hat, draw a winner and send £50 to a charity of their choice.
Across
9&8d Big bad clerk screwed agency on Great Sutton Street (11)
10 Large shit ordered to become more like Monster (9)
11 John, industry headhunter, gargled Retsina (7)
12 Tempted heart of Penna into web of deceit (7)
13 Language school, without hesitation, gives Hemel agency business (5)
15 Home of Online Recruitment blew to pieces: fifty missing (3)
16 Everyone in Tribal left last Friday (3)
17 Chancery Lane crew, casual, miss point (3)
19 Hodes, as known by intimates, buggered up re brand (7)
20 Colour hidden within Times Higher Education Supplement (3)
23 Val and Andrea's gang and I put into therapy group (3)
24 29a's stablemate cut heads from the cost structure (3)
25 See 22d
27 JWT employee with privileged information? (7)
29 Tarrant's team fit right in at cake shop (7)
32 Elle in DT's done up like a Christmas tree (9)
33 What we'll be forced to drink, and drive, when we lose our jobs (5)
Down
1 Employer Branding nonsense fades away (4)
2 Web browser is good way to find Giraffe (6)
3 Rizla paper found in Bruce Dorskind's briefcase (4)
4 Adult in AGR turns to jelly (4)
5 Dean's kebab reheated - served at the GRAMIAs in tough times? (5,5)
6 Holy alien makes comment on ad proof (4)
7 Memo sent by 360? (8)
8 See 9a
13 Boring tool, leader of Brilliant, snuggles up to computers (3)
14 A mono inclusion in a 2d? (5)
15 Simon Howard's ambition - to do as little as possible (4,2,4)
16 Car runs into front of TotalJobs triggering inquiry (5)
18 NE agency's dodgy personas (8)
21 Expected of the French head of EuroRSCG (3)
22 & 25a Agency formed by merger of 2, 17 and 14 (6, 5)
26 Copywriter's arse made sound like mouse and stank to high heaven (6)
28 Legal document expired, announced by S1jobs (4)
29 Tender (online) and wait (4)
30 Heaters blow-out on January 15th 2009 (4)
31 Americans replace bloke in SMRS - figure it out (4)
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