ACROSS SATURDAY’S SOLUTIONS

1 6

7 9 11 12 14 16 18 19

Yob (8) Synthetic plastic material (1,1,1)

Act of stealing (5) Not at home (4)

Bait (4)

Female opera singer (4) Prayer ending (4) Cavalry sword (5) Omelette base (3) Woman with dark hair (8)

15 1 2 3 4 5

DOWN

Futile (8) Playwright, — Wilde (5) Jot (4)

Traditional beer (3) Linger behind or wander from a main line or part (8)

8 London park (4)

10 Endure constant use (4)

13 Motionless (5)

15 Average (4)

17 Prohibit (3)

ACROSS: 2 Paella, 5 Safe,

6 Tissue, 7 Gene, 8 Rat, 11 Asia, 13 Podium, 14 Meek, Lumley. DOWN: 1 Rave, 2 Peter, 3 Lisp, 4 Agenda, 7 Gospel, 9 Tammy, 10 Adam, 12 Ibex.

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FAMILIES of 2,600 Covid-19 victims plan legal action to force the Government to hold an immediate public inquiry into its handling of the pandemic.

Lawyers for the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign will write to the Government later this month.

Boris Johnson has said he will order a probe – but only after the crisis is over.

Lawyers are expected to claim ministers have a duty under human rights laws to hold an urgent, judge-led statutory probe. And the families think the action may help to prevent further avoidable deaths. The group’s website says: “To get real answers we need an independent and judge-led statutory public inquiry – where the Government doesn’t get to mark its own homework.

“And an inquiry that reports its findings in a year or so won’t save lives in the coming months.”

The legal case is led by lawyers Pete Weatherby QC and Elkan Abrahamson, who have represented the families of those who died in the 1989 Hillsborough and 2017 Grenfell Tower disasters, and the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.