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 Sister of Emmerdale village little’un Heath (5)

9 See 31A

10 See 19D

11 See 15A

12 __ Barton, worked at

Wylies Farm with Nate Robinson in the Dales (4)

14 Real first name of 34D’s deceased partner in Home and Away (4)

15 & 11A Actress who plays poorly Holby City nurse Essie Di Lucca (4,5)

16 __’__ Rolls, Victoria Street café run by Mr Cropper in Coronation Street (3’1)

17 See 43A

18 See 30D

19 __ Moon, Kush’s companion, currently absent from the Square (3)

22 Chloe’s half-brother in Neighbours (5)

24 See 34D

26 __ Anthony, actress who plays Hollyoaks village resident Marnie Nightingale (7)

29 Xavier __, worked at

Holby City Hospital (5)

31 & 9A Ian Beale has teamed up with him to get one over on 42A’s character in Eastenders (3,8)

33 & 32D He plays 19A’s other half, who has been helping her family in Eastenders (6,7)

35 Dales cottage where

Paddy Kirk works (6)

36 Basic skill that villager Bear Wolf is learning to do (4)

37 Madeleine __, actress who plays both 30D and her twin sister Dee in Neighbours (4)

39 & 20D Dales chap who is worried he’s blown it with partner Harriet Finch (4,6)

40 & 12D Actress behind Chester’s Sienna Blake (4,6)

42 & 7D She plays 35D’s new fiancée in Eastenders (5,6)

43 & 17A Rhona Goskirk’s ex who held Vanessa Woodfield hostage in Emmerdale (6,6)

44 __ Duggan, original actress to play former Albert Square resident Lauren Branning (8)

__ North, star behind Corrie’s Gary Windass (5)

DOWN

1 Simon __, actor who plays concerned Coronation Street father Steve Mcdonald (7)

2 Number of times 40A’s character has been married in Hollyoaks (4)

3 What Weatherfield’s Izzy Armstrong sews for a living (9)

5 Emmerdale actor Danny Miller’s village alter ego (5)

6 See 35D

7 See 42A

8 __ Mcpherson, actor who plays Dr Liam Cavanagh in

Emmerdale (5)

12 See 40A

13 __ Winter, called a truce with Prima Doner workmate Cathy Matthews in Corrie (6)

19 & 10A Coronation Street bloke who split from Claudia Colby and returned to his childhood home (3,6)

20 See 39A

21 Brother of 35D, also known as Halfway in Eastenders (6)

23 The car __, area of

Albert Square that was once owned by 31A (3)

25 __ Malinovsky, Casualty paramedic (3)

27 Yasmeen Metcalfe attacked her abusive husband Geoff at No __ Coronation Street (3)

28 Flowers for sale at Preston’s Petals in Weatherfield (6)

29 Corrie shopkeeper who has had trouble with his twin teenagers (3,6)

30 & 18A Elly Conway’s surprising cell mate in Neighbours (6,6)

32 See 33A

34 & 24A Summer Bay lass who was delighted to discover that she’s pregnant (7,7)

35 & 6D Albert Square resident and funeral director who recently proposed to Rainie Branning (6,7)

38 __ Chapman, Emmerdale village resident who was being two-timed by Belle Dingle (5)

39 __ Hayes, fella who was once taken care of by Roy Cropper and returned to Weatherfield briefly in 2019 (5)

41 __ Mohan, Casualty star behind Rashid Masum (4)