I'm completelystuck on the top left. Please could someone help me with 1 across just to help me out?
Activist disrupts a Liberal ball (6)
Sorry, no letters!
It's one of the 10 answers/names referred to in the preamble. Have you got the theme yet? My answer for 1 A is definitely correct, but I'd be useless at parsing it. It begins with 'A' and ends with 'o'.