Big name crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Nicola Adams and Mel B, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000. 54 Scheme (4) 57 Straight, unwavering (6) 59 Home, residence (5) 60 Floppy (4) 64 Commotion,
disturbance (6) 65 Contented (5) 66 Char (5) 70 Tiger Woods’s sport (4) 71 Finding fault (8) 72 Covered passage with
shops each side (6) 75 Apartment (4) 79 Surplus (5) 80 Deserve (5) 81 Swung or hung (7) 82 Organ of thought (5) 83 Fortified Spanish wine
served as an aperitif (6) 84 Assembly or meeting (9)
85 Drink (8)
ACROSS
Sudden frightening rush (8)
Scent (9)
Smile in a coy, irritating way (6)
Sag (5)
Plant with brightlycoloured flowers used in bouquets (7)
Bog (5)
Abdominal pain often experienced by babies (5)
20 Blink the eye in a
suggestive manner (4) 21 Card game (6)
22 Large yellow seed used
to make hummus (8) 23 Idiot, twit (4)
26 Shelf (5)
28 Custom (5)
29 Stroke, touch
soothingly (6)
33 Adhesive (4)
34 Appear in ghostly form (5)
Group of billions of stars and planets (6)
39 Bog fuel (4)
40 Robber (5)
42 Herb used in Indian and Middle Eastern cookery (9)
45 Tidy (4)
47 Playhouse (7)
48 Own (7)
49 Girl (4)
52 Group of people who run an organisation (9)
Top of the head (5) 1
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American pavement (8) Oak tree nut (5)
Tube (4)
Postpone (5)
Slice of bacon (6)
Quick look (6)
Attacker (9)
Crispy roasted pork skin (9)
Move forward very slowly (4)
Jumper (8)
Wild and irresponsible (8)
14 Unwanted plant (4)
15 Velocity (5)
24 Even (5)
25 French phrase meaning a gaffe or embarrassing blunder (4,3)
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12 13 V-shaped river mouth (5)
30 Art of public speaking (8)
Shockingly explicit (5) Person who sells and arranges flowers (7) Leafy green vegetable (7)
37 Notion (4)
38 Gift (7)
41 Act in a way that shows confusion and helplessness (8)
42 Expense (4)
43 Pickle (7)
44 Large pond (4)
46 Fighting force (4)
50 Smallest amount (7)
51 Sham, fake (5)
55 Citrus fruit (5)
56 Redden (5)
58 Simple Italian restaurant (9) Childrens’ pavement game (9)
Move forward or improve (8)
62 Egg dish (8)
63 Court judgment specifying punishment (8)
67 Dirt (5)
68 Engineless aircraft that rides aircurrents (6) Stimulant found in tea (6)
Young elephant (4) Evade, elude (5) Andean beast of burden (5)
Young salmon (4) Competent (4) 27 31 32
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