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 Freya Calder may have damaged hers after Hollyoaks’ minibus crash (5) 9 Brooke __, Darren and Nancy Osbornes non-binary foster child in Hollyoaks (8) 10 Charlotte __, she plays Neighbours Nicolette Stone (6) 11 & 6D He plays 27D in Coronation Street (5,7) 12 The __ Shop, long-serving Summer Bay retail outlet in Home and Away (4) 14 Clinical Decisions __, also known as CDU in Casualty (4) 15 See 2D 16 She had a River Bend romance with 10A’s character in Neighbours (4) 17 See 13D 18 See 39A 19 Female sheep possibly encountered on Butlers Farm in the Dales (3) 22 & 34D Summer Bay lad who was almost accidentally buried alive (5,7) 24 __ Anthony, legendary actress who played 43A in Hollyoaks (7) 26 & 35D Glen Donnelly’s fling with her produced 16A in Neighbours (7,6) 29 See 8D 31 See 39D 33 He left Walford with his wife Tiffany Butcher-Baker (6) 35 Classic US soap featuring JR and Sue Ellen Ewing (6) 36 __ Qureshi, 21D is his biological mother in Hollyoaks (4) 37 The Coronation Street character played by 11A devises the one for his café (4) 39 & 18A Teenage mother of Sharon Watts’ grandchild Alyssa Lennox in EastEnders (4,6) 40 & 30D Actress behind casual Corrie character Claudia Colby (4,6) 42 Walford resident and father of 33A and 12D (5) 43 __ Nightingale, died after an explosion in Hollyoaks (6) 44 See 32D 45 Nate __, pseudonym of Chester copper Saul Reeves in Hollyoaks (5)
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1 __ Pitman, works at The Mill Health Centre in Doctors (7) 2 & 15A __ __ Fernandes, young EastEnders actress who plays 12D (4-4) 3 David Platt’s stepson who was injured after breaking into his salon in Corrie (3,6) 5 See 29D 6 See 11A 7 Surname of soap family members Belle, Zak and Sam in Emmerdale (6) 8 & 29A Emmerdale murderer who was sentenced to 75 years’ in jail (5,5) 12 __ Baker, attempted to reunite 42A with his old flame in EastEnders (6) 13 & 17A Walford woman Stacey Slater recently talked him out of marrying her troubled mum Jean (6,6) 19 HOP customers can get something to __ at Hide Bistro in Emmerdale (3) 20 Corrie veteran Eileen Grimshaw lives at No __ Coronation Street (6) 21 __ Maalik, consultant in emergency medicine at Dee Valley Hospital in Hollyoaks (6) 23 Genetic material tested to establish fatherhood for many soap characters (1,1,1) 25 EastEnders moved to a new __ this year (3) 27 __ Cropper, longtime Weatherfield resident (3) 28 George Shuttleworth claimed this was the name of his overprotective cat in Corrie (6) 29 & 5D Actor who plays Dales teenager Jacob Gallagher (3-6,5) 30 See 40A 32 & 44A Brave Chester lady who posed for life drawing after her mastectomy (7,8) 34 See 22A 35 See 26A 38 Charles Anderson’s lawyer son in Emmerdale (5) 39 & 31A Former drug dealer controversially employed at Underworld factory in Corrie (5,3) 41 No longer with us, like legendary EastEnders actress June Brown (4)