THE BIGGIE
Phwoar – it’s a whopper! Enjoy your puzzling
Which martial art does actress and star of Twin Peaks Naomi Watts practise to keep
fit? To find out, solve the crossword, then read down the letters in the shaded squares to find the two-word prize answer. ACROSS 11 Completely out of date (8) 12 Place to keep your cash (5) 13 Language spoken in the Middle East and North Africa (6) 14 Car’s warning device (4) 15 Newspaper (7) 16 Unlucky number? (8) 17 Catches fire (7) 18 Caribbean song, often topical (7) 19 Table of duties (4) 21 Snail’s home (5) 23 Paint or dye (7) 24 Preparing text for publication (7) 28 Practise for a bout (4) 29 Small delivery vehicle (3) 30 Ancient writer (6) 33 The opposite of sweet (7) 35 Possess (3) 36 1950s dance (4) 38 Vast desert of Mongolia and North China (4) 39 Request (3) 40 Accounts books (7) 42 See 27 Down 43 Bird in the Australian outback (3) 44 Overwhelming defeat (4) 48 Remarks upon, sees (7) 50 Scheme (7) 51 Monarch (5) 54 City where the tower leans (4) 56 Outdoors, alfresco (4-3) 57 Authority given by the electorate in a vote (7) 60 Drinks can opening device (4-4) 61 Natural home of an animal (7) 63 Edge of a hat (4) 64 Child of uncle or aunt (6) 65 Timekeeper (5) 66 Highly skilled musician (8) DOWN 1 Rectangle (6) 2 Elected local government officer (10) 3 Placed on the scales (7) 4 Grasp, take hold of (5) 5 Catch sight of (4) 6 Large island in the North Atlantic (9) 7 Unnecessary bureaucratic formality (3, 4) 8 Yellow flower (8) 9 Glib sales talk (6) 10 Old road distance
marker (9) 18 Hair groomer (4) 20 Enormous (5) 22 Seven-sided
shape (8) 25 Mug resembling a man with a three-cornered hat (4, 3) 26 Cloudy (8) 27 and 42 Across Luxury British brand of sports car (5) 31 One who comes
second (6-2) 32 Orchestral
prelude (8) 34 Art of paper
folding (7) 37 Smelly black-and
white animal (5) 41 Fuzzy skinned
fruit (5) 44 Road feature known as a traffic circle in the United States (10) 45 Lawyer (9) 46 Three-discipline
race (9) 47 Slightly open (4) 49 Strongly expressive, articulate and fluent (8) 52 Do the job of
a mirror (7) 53 Portable source
of electricity (7) 55 Dignified,
impressive (6) 58 Desire for
a drink (6) 59 Kiln, oven (5) 62 Make a cake (4)