THE BIGGIE
Phwoar – it’s a whopper! Enjoy your puzzling
What links Pretty Woman’s Julia Roberts and Titanic star Leonardo Dicaprio? To find out, solve the crossword then read down the shaded squares to find the three-word prize answer.
ACROSS
1 Rock sticking out of the ground (7) 5 Secret name to gain access (8) 9 Strategy (4) 13 Water escapes that you don’t want (5) 14 First settler (7) 15 Unpredictable (7) 16 Canvas holder (5) 17 One extra (5) 18 Underground passageway (6) 20 Jungle kings (5) 21 Arcade flipper game (7) 23 Bath powder (4) 26 Informed (4) 27 Highest mountain (7) 30 Alone performer (7) 34 Booze (7) 36 Receipt of admission (6) 37 Edition of publication (5) 39 Likeness (10) 40 Intentional, on purpose (10) 42 Picture (5) 43 Joined together (6) 44 The place to see a play (7) 46 Traveller with a religious goal (7) 47 Book-lending institution (7) 48 Young male horse (4) 53 Facial spots (4) 54 Home details on an envelope (7) 55 Madame Butterfly or The Marriage of Figaro (5) 58 Walk in shallow water (6) 60 Model wood (5) 62 Jury (5) 66 Raw material at a steelworks, perhaps (4, 3) 67 Put to use (7) 68 Raring to go (5) 69 Fencing weapon (4) 70 Taken into custody (8) 71 Baton carried by a ruler (7)
DOWN
1 Deep bore that might become a gusher (3, 4) 2 Inedible
fungus (9) 3 Fidgety and
impatient (8) 4 Long tube (4) 5 Stage
equipment (4) 6 Brush floor (5) 7 Closet (8) 8 Vibrating strip in an oboe or clarinet (4) 10 Roman
language (5) 11 String of
beads (8) 12 Freshwater fish, which could be rainbow or brown (5) 19 Arm joint (5) 22 Creepy-crawly (6) 24 Helper, aide (9) 25 Male
‘bobbies’ (9) 26 Broadcast (8) 28 Hook-and-loop
fastener (6) 29 Spinning (8) 31 Throw down
the gauntlet (9) 32 Footballer who plays at the back (8) 33 Apartment
building (8) 35 Escort (9) 38 Scattered
rubbish (6) 41 Steps (6) 45 Dizzy after 29
Down maybe (5) 49 From dusk until
dawn (9) 50 Blue jewel (8) 51 Pirate’s hoard (8) 52 Entire, whole (8) 56 Free, like an escaped prisoner (2, 5) 57 Life fluid (5) 59 Male honey
bee (5) 61 Canonised
person (5) 63 One names as a beneficiary in a will (4) 64 Feathered friend (4) Untidiness (4)