PRIZE CROSSWORD

For the chance to win £100, 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

4 Teenage granddaughter of 29A by his deceased son Ashley Thomas in the Dales (5) 9 See 11A

10 & 32D Eastender who helped Mick Carter when he collapsed (6,7)

11 & 9A Emma Brooker’s biological dad in Corrie (5,8)

12 Milly __, soon to be playing returning Eastender Dotty Cotton (4)

14 Animals formerly kept on

8D’s farm (4)

15 __ Bateman, two-timing Walford dentist (4)

16 __ Thompson, Home and Away chap (4)

17 __ King, plays Street resident Carla Connor (6)

18 __ And Ridley, Weatherfield brewery serving the Rovers (6)

19 __ Nilsson, Elly Conway’s half-sister in Neighbours (3)

22 __ Dobson, actress who played legendary original Eastender Angie Watts (5)

24 See 39A

26 & 42A She plays Holby City’s Nicky Mckendrick, and previously played Libby Fox in Eastenders (7,5)

29 __ Thomas, Dales character played by the late Freddie Jones (5)

31 Untruth, like characters in soaps often tell! (3)

33 James __, actor who plays 41D’s half-brother

Sam (6)

35 Secret relationship, like Mercedes Mcqueen is having with 39D’s brother (6)

36 __ Canning, split from his fiancée in Neighbours (4)

37 __ Rolls, café located near to Coronation Street (3’1)

39 & 24A Hollyoaks villager who put on a kilt and got ready to marry 8D (4,7)

40 See 35D

42 See 26A

43 __ Tinker, Daniel Osbourne’s poorly wife in Coronation Street (6)

44 See 6D

45 Genesis __, Casualty actress behind registrar

Archie Hudson (5)

DOWN

1 See 8D

2 __ Godard, consultant general surgeon in Holby City (4)

3 Full first name of 8D’s relative, known more commonly as Cleo in Hollyoaks (9)

5 Mitchell’s __, business located at the Arches near Albert Square (5)

6 & 44A Erinsborough medic and Paul’s stepmum (7,8)

7 & 34D Actor behind Dales bloke Doug Potts (6,7)

8 & 1D She bumped off

Hollyoaks fellas Russ Owen and Harry Thompson (5,7)

12 __ Ditchett, young actor who plays Coronation Street kid Aadi Alahan (6)

13 Plates of food that Mackenzie Booth serves up at Salt in Summer Bay… (6)

19 …while Ryder Jackson pours drinks from the __ in

Home and Away (3)

20 & 27D Practice nurse at The Mill Health Centre in Doctors (6,3)

21 __ Steele, actress who plays Emmerdale village teenager Liv Flaherty (6)

23 __ Bartholomew, actor who plays manipulative

Coronation Street bloke

Geoff Metcalfe (3)

25 __ Astoni, Summer Bay resident who has been framed for drug trafficking (3)

27 See 20D

28 Surname of the Casualty favourite known as Duffy (6)

29 Space behind the Minute Mart shop where goods are stored before being sold in Albert Square (9)

30 See 41D

32 See 10A

34 See 7D

35 & 40A Actor who plays 20D’s colleague Sid

Vere in Doctors (6,4)

38 Young son of Eastenders’

Linda and Mick Carter (5)

39 Donovan brother played by Luke Jerdy in Hollyoaks (5)

41 & 30D Emmerdale village resident Moira gave in to temptation and was unfaithful to him with Nate Robinson (4,6)