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
3 __ Richards, actor who plays Paddy Kirk’s dad Bear Wolf in Emmerdale (6)
7 & 33A He plays Dales medic Dr Liam Cavanagh (5,9)
8 __ Greyson, young
Ramsay Street resident who couldn’t find a school (7)
9 Female sheep, like 26A has on her farm in the Dales (3)
11 See 21A
13 Diane __, veteran Emmerdale villager and onetime Woolpack landlady (6)
16 Justin Morgan’s daughter in Home and Away (3)
17 __ Fletcher, actress who plays Hollyoaks’ Diane Hutchinson, and once played Jacqui Dixon in Brookside (4) 18 See 49A
21 & 11A Eastender who suffers abuse at the hands of her husband Grey (9,6)
23 See 30D
26 Cain Dingle’s cheating wife in Emmerdale (5)
28 & 6D Maxine’s new husband in Hollyoaks, who recently went to prison (5,8)
32 Alan __, actor who has played Tyrone Dobbs in
Corrie since 1998 (7)
33 See 7A
37 Newton And __, brewery serving the Rovers Return in
Coronation Street (6)
39 Sort of vehicle gifted to
Neighbours’ Karl Kennedy (4)
40 & 4D Summer Bay High School teacher related to Alf in Home and Away (3,7)
41 __ Windsor, one of Emmerdale villager Jimmy King’s offspring (6)
43 See 3D
45 Less-formal name of former Weatherfield mayor Sally Metcalfe (3)
47 Relation that Phil Mitchell is to Walford teen tearaway Dennis Rickman (7)
48 & 14D Holby City
Hospital worker being stalked by Evan Crowhurst (5,6)
49 & 18A Scheming
Coronation Street newcomer who’s been selling positive pregnancy tests online (6,6)
DOWN
1 Dotty __, making a return to Walford with her grandma
Dot Branning (6)
2 & 38D He was switched at birth with Weatherfield medic and drug addict Ali Neeson (4,6)
3 & 43A Liverpudlian actor joining the cast of Hollyoaks as Tony Hutchinson’s dad (3,6)
4 See 40A
5 See 46D
6 See 28A
10 Young son of Emmerdale villager 26A (5)
12 Hollyoaks village resident who was glad when estranged husband and bully Laurie Shelby died (6)
14 See 48A
15 __ Robinson, 26A’s bit on the side in the Dales (4)
19 Ricky __, Eastenders actor behind 30D’s brother Stuart (5)
20 Bailey family matriarch played by ex-doctors star
Lorna Laidlaw in Corrie (5)
22 Eileen Grimshaw’s younger son who no longer lives in Weatherfield (4)
24 __ Maalik, Hollyoaks teen played by Ijaz Rana (5)
25 Albert Square bloke Jack Branning is an __ to Robbie and Bianca Jackson (5)
27 Mum and colleague
of 48A in Holby City (4) 29 __ Rebecchi, Ramsay Street resident annoyed by 31D’s arrival in Erinsborough (6)
30 & 23A Whitney Dean ran out on her wedding to this chap in Eastenders (6,7)
31 __ Brady, met Ned Willis at an airport in her wedding dress in Neighbours (8)
34 __ Farm, estate currently owned by villager Kim Tate (4)
35 Mikey __, actor who plays Corrie’s Gary Windass (5)
36 The name of the Taylors’ pet pooch in Eastenders (7) 38 See 2D
42 Eastender Tiffany Butcher’s elder brother who lives in Milton Keynes (4)
44 Former Bay woman played by actress Anna Cocquerel (4)
46 & 5D Actor who plays Ben ‘Lofty’ Chiltern in Holby (3,4)