PRIZE CROSSWORD

For the chance to win £150, complete the crossword puzzle, and the yellow squares – reading from top to bottom – will spell out a word linked to the pictured soap character…

ACROSS

3 & 36D Bridge Street

Market’s controversial new inspector in Eastenders (6,7) 7 Raechelle __, Home

and Away actress (5)

8 Full first name of Square resident Mrs Branning, who is recovering from a recent fall (7)

9 & 6D Holby City Hospital nurse known as ‘Lofty’ (3,8)

11 Kellie __, actress who plays landlady of 25D Linda Carter, who has recently made a return to Albert Square (6)

13 __ Mealing, actress who plays Connie Beauchamp, deputy clinical lead at the

Holby City Hospital ED (6)

16 Illness that Hollyoaks village resident Ste Hay takes medication to control (1,1,1)

17 & 38D Home and Away doctor who left the Bay after splitting with Tori Morgan (4,6)

18 __ Limbachia, actress who plays Coronation Street nurse Rana Nazir (6)

21 Aaron Dingle and Adam Barton run one of these in Emmerdale village (9)

23 __ Valance, actress who plays Ramsay Street resident Paige Smith (7)

26 Spanish island visited by Hollyoaks’ finest this week (5)

28 & 30D The eldest of Albert Square newcomer Karen’s many male offspring (5,6)

32 See 46D

33 See 35D

37 Church-attending daughter of the Dales’ Dan Spencer (6)

39 David Tanaka is Leo’s __ brother in Neighbours (4)

40 See 25D

41 Michael __, actor who plays Prince and Hunter Mcqueen’s dad Shane Sweeney (6) 43 Surname of departed

Hollyoaks family which included Ziggy, Freddie and Joe (6)

45 __ Dingle, gamekeeper at Home Farm in Emmerdale (3)

47 __ Elmaloglou, plays poorly Terese Willis in Neighbours (7)

48 __ & Mitchell, Walford funeral directors (5)

49 What the locals call the alley behind Coronation Street (6)

DOWN

1 Long-time Chester resident married to Hollyoaks High teacher Nancy Osborne (6)

2 & 31D Dales bully knocked out by Tracy Metcalfe (4,8)

3 __ Mallard, actor who plays struggling Daniel Osbourne in the Street (3)

4 See 19D

5 __ Palmer, pleased to see his adopted son Jett back in Summer Bay (4)

6 See 9A

10 Jamie __, actor who plays Holby City Hospital porter

Max Walker in Casualty (5)

12 __ Rebecchi, Erinsborough lawyer who is attempting to reunite with his wife Sonya (6)

14 __ Roberts, long-time Weatherfield resident who employs 24D (6)

15 Absentee father of Sarah Sugden in the Dales (4)

19 & 4D Young actress who plays rebellious Emmerdale teen Gabby Thomas (5,7)

20 David Platt’s late wife, who was murdered by Shona Ramsey’s son in Corrie (5)

22 The Red Rec located in Weatherfield, for example (4)

24 __ Connor, still having an affair with Eva Price’s fiancé in Coronation Street (5)

25 & 40A Walford pub run by the Carter clan (5,3)

27 Relation that Moira Dingle is to Ross Barton in Emmerdale (4)

29 Azuka __, actress who plays Louise Tyler in Casualty (6)

30 See 28A

31 See 2D

34 Albert Square’s Mick

Carter is the father of one daughter and three __ (4)

35 & 33A Chester copper who is stalking Cindy Savage (5,9) 36 See 3A

38 See 17A

42 __ Fox, actor who plays the father of 37A in Emmerdale (4)

44 Number of times that 11A’s character in Eastenders has been married (4)

46 & 32A Unfortunate

Coronation Street woman who aided evil Nathan Curtis as he groomed Bethany Platt (3,7)