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 & 35D She plays flirty Dales newcomer Meena Jutla (5,6)

9 Walford undertaker who saved Honey Mitchell from her date (3,5)

10 __ Graham, actor who plays James Bailey in Corrie (6)

11 & 29A Stylist who sold his Weatherfield home to Ray Crosby (5,5)

12 & 29D Summer Bay lady recently kidnapped and almost forced to get married (4,9)

14 The Weatherfield __, rival pub to the Rovers Return (4)

15 & 38D Mick Carter’s abuser who has arrived in Walford (4,5) 16 See 23D

17 See 31A

18 Nickname of Erinsborough lawyer Jarrod Rebecchi (6)

19 __ Hollins, police officer married to The Mill Health Centre receptionist Karen (3)

22 __ Beale, had a onenight stand with 9A’s ex Lola Pearce in EastEnders (5) 24 __ Sarker, plays the sister

of 4A’s character in the Dales (7) 26 Where the Walford locals go for posh shopping! (4,3)

29 See 11A

31 & 17A He ‘married’ Yashvi Rebecchi to try to trap Scarlett Brady in Neighbours (3,6) 33 & 21D Evelyn Plummer dumped him on realising he was married in Corrie (6,6) 35 See 27D 36 & 2D Cottage where Take A Vow is located in the Dales (4,4) 37 __ Nazir, trying to run Speed Daal in spite of Geoff’s interference in Corrie (4)

39 __ Lovall, staff nurse who works in Holby City Hospital’s emergency department (4)

40 & 7D Charity Dingle’s son who has ataxic cerebral palsy in Emmerdale (4,6)

42 See 1D

43 Harold __, much-missed Neighbours character (6)

44 Actress who plays

Holby City neurosurgeon Max McGerry (2,6)

45 The ginnel is a narrow __ that’s located behind Coronation Street (5)

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1 & 42A Logie awardwinning actor playing Owen Davidson in Home and Away – and who recently played Evan Slater! (7,5)

2 See 36A

3 Special episode of a soap featuring just a couple of cast members (3-6)

5 Imran __, Hollyoaks actor behind Mitchell Deveraux (5) 6 See 19D

7 See 40A

8 __ Mitchell, young daughter of Honey and Billy in EastEnders (5)

12 Kacey Ainsworth’s Walford alter ego was __ Mo, to Laila Morse’s Big Mo (6)

13 __ McQueen, mother of Hollyoaks twins Prince and Hunter (6)

19 & 6D Holby City surgeon who awoke from his coma to the coronavirus pandemic (3,7)

20 __ Patel, actress who plays The Mill Health Centre midwife Ruhma Carter in Doctors (6)

21 See 33A 23 & 16A Hollyoaks nightclub owned by Grace Black (3,4)

25 __ Nilsson, Neighbours character who’s played by actress and singer-songwriter Bonnie Anderson (3)

27 & 35A Deeply troubled Chester youngster whose life has been seriously affected after taking drugs (3,6)

28 __ Wisdom, legendary comedian who popped up in Coronation Street in 2004 (6) 29 See 12A

30 The business owned by 9A is located on __ Road in Walford (6)

32 Actor who plays Ramsay Street resident 31A (3,4)

34 __ J Robb, long-time Emmerdale actress who plays Moira Dingle (7)

35 See 4A

38 See 15A

39 __ Rodgers, patient with whom bereaved Sacha Levy slept in Holby City (5)

41 __ Barton, son of 34D’s alter ego, on the run for a murder he didn’t commit in the Dales (4)