TRICKY CROSSWORD!
Fleetwood mac singer Stevie nicks has revealed that she recovered from an unhappy relationship in the past by making dozens and dozens of what? Solve the crossword, then read down the shaded squares.
ACROSS
11 Wordy board game (8) 12 Share an opinion (5) 13 in no particular order (6) 14 List of options (4) 15 evident, clear (7) 16 magnetic personal quality (8) 17 Slapped (7) 18 us barn dance (7) 29 measurement that’s equal to 91.44cm (4) 21 Showery month (5) 23 Submarine missile (7) 24 modify in preparation for publication (7) 28 nuisance (4) 29 Small, powerful boat used in ports (3) 30 Large birds of prey (6) 33 never-ending (7) 35 mineral spring or health resort (3) 36 Small branch (4) 38 iron corrosion (4) 39 excavate (3) 40 citrus drink (7) 42 nursery rhyme character
who loses her flock (2-4) 43 heavy weight (3) 44 Verse writer (4) 48 Strand of a brush (7) 50 nightclub variety show (7) 51 Wood fastener (5) 54 Fine powder once popular
in the bathroom (4) 56 ex-serviceman (7) 57 Distance across (7) 60 Search among waste for items of worth (8) 61 Train of camels crossing a desert (7) 63 Blue flower (4) 64 area of residential housing (6) 65 Soup server (5) 66 Practice at a 25 Down (8)
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1 Shriek of terror (6) 2 handwritten document (10) 3 Body section, lower part of the trunk (7) 4 Begin a tennis match (5) 5 Ring of light above a saint’s head (4) 6 in music, a gradual increase in loudness (9) 7 central part of a nuclear power plant (7) 8 admitted to holy orders (8) 9 messy (6) 10 curved australian object that flies in a circle (9) 18 over-the-top publicity (4) 20 Type of drum (5) 22 guitar-plucking device (8) 25 Playhouse (7) 26 Stand with one foot either side (8) 27 Lavish meal (5) 31 angle of slope (8) 32 Type of view from directly overhead (5-3) 34 Soldiers’ carried food reserves (7) 37 country where Luxor is found (5) 41 Stainless - - -, metal that won’t 38 across (5) 44 Beast of burden, mule or llama, perhaps (4,6) 45 Transmit over the airwaves (9) 46 Defensive obstacle (9) 47 Farm outbuilding (4) 49 Fragrant mauve plant (8) 52 church tower (7) 53 Brittle and noisy to chew (7) 55 expensive fish roe (6) 58 Desire for drink (6) 59 material of tusks (5) 62 coral shipping hazard (4)