YOU CAN WIN 50
GIVE your brain a workout and win some cash. There’s £50 for the sender of the first correct Jumbo Crossword drawn from the postbag after the closing date of August 8. Just fill in the crossword and send it, with your name and address, to: Daily Star Jumbo Crossword, PO Box 12579, Sutton Coldfield, B73 9BU. Last week’s winner was Mrs M Stewart, Musselburgh.
ACROSS
1 Plants that irritate the skin (8,7)
9 Hunting dog (5)
12 Basements (7)
13 Moves quickly (5)
14 Insect (3)
16 Of short duration (5)
17 and 34 Down Jamila in Unforgotten - last Sunday, ITV (5,5)
18 Power-generating device (6,6)
19 and 29 Down William Blake in The Frankenstein Chronicles - last Tuesday, ITV (6,7)
21 and 43 Down Julie in Holby City - last Tuesday, BBC1 (7,6)
24 and 37 Down Prudie in Poldark - last Sunday, BBC1 (6,5)
26 Stiff bristle in the ear of a stalk of rye (3)
28 Mountain goat (4)
30 Broadcast (3)
31 Drain (7)
32 Form an opinion of beforehand (8)
34 Musicians, Bill Wyman and Sting are examples (8)
35 Edge (4)
36 See 58 Across
40 Partially burn (4)
41 Aroma (5)
42 Thigh bone (5)
43 Bring bad luck to (4)
44 Projectile (5)
46 Wading bird (4)
47 Island off the
north-west coast of Wales (8)
51 Creature that lives in the intestines (8)
53 See 56 Down
54 Sprite (3)
55 Rounded part of a thermometer (4)
57 Fifth zodiac sign (3)
58 and 36 Across Holly in The Handmaid’s Tale - last Sunday, Channel 4 (6,5)
60 Showing sincerity (7)
65 and 3 Down Tomasetti in Picnic At Hanging
Rock BBC2 - (6,6) last Wednesday,
66 Ritually (12)
68 Cancel (5)
71 Permission (5)
72 Ornamental carp (3)
73 and 20 Down Leanne in Age Before Beauty - last Tuesday, BBC1
(5,8)
74 Very stupid (7)
75 Dispatches (5)
76 Carrying many weapons (5,2,3,5)
DOWN
1 Footwear (5)
2 Loiters (5)
3 See 65 Across
4 End of a rugby match
(2-4)
5 and 25 Down Razia Paracha in Ackley Bridge - last Tuesday, Channel 4 (7,6)
6 Beef from the sirloin
(1-4,5)
7 Fine cotton thread (5)
8 Major city in E. China (8)
9 Frequent visitor (7)
10 Not asked for (9)
11 Totally vulnerable (11)
15 Minute (4)
20 See 73 Across
22 Frame holding the glass in a window (4)
23 Untested (12)
24 Ale (4)
25 See 5 Down
27 Nuclear weapons that do not destroy property (7,5)
29 See 19 Across
33 Flying saucer (3)
34 See 17 Across
37 See 24 Across
38 and 64 Down Iris in The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco - last Wednesday, ITV (7,6)
39 Million million (8)
43 See 21 Across
44 Medium altitude cloud (11)
45 Mineral from which metal can be extracted (3)
48 Text of an advert (4)
49 Anxiety (4)
50 Afflicted (10)
52 Decide beforehand (9)
56 and 53 Across Isabella Braganza in Versailles - last Monday, BBC2 (8,7)
59 London news agency founded in 1851 (7)
61 Cry of a huntsman
(5-2)
62 Bird’s bill (4)
63 Indirect route (6)
64 See 38 Down
67 Old tar-soaked rope (5)
69 Din (5)
70 Bloodsucker (5)