Books & Puzzles
American actress Scarlett Johansson has opened
a shop in Paris that does what? Solve the crossword, then read down the shaded squares.
ACROSS
11 Part of a bed (8) 12 Segment (5) 13 Search for a fact in a book or on the net (4,2) 14 Threesome (4) 15 Painter’s pattern (7) 16 county that includes Bath (8) 17 Blocked up (7) 18 Vivid yellow spice (7) 19 enormous (4) 21 clinching evidence (5) 23 Pirate’s sword (7) 24 High-pitched voice (7) 28 Hairless (4) 29 Wet soil (3) 30 car shelter (6) 33 Statistical norm (7) 35 Bird that might be barn, snowy or tawny (3) 36 Piece of news (4) 38 Blocking vote (4) 39 Tennis call (3) 40 Financial outlay (7) 42 Two-speaker hi-fi (6) 43 code needed at the cash machine (3) 44 Small horse (4) 48 Proper, true and accurate (7) 50 Hard palm fruit, targeted in a fairground shy (7) 51 confess (5) 54 move wings (4) 56 Tough plastic used as a glass substitute (7) 57 Texts of words for a play (7) 60 Warm outer garment (8) 61 ancient Roman city destroyed when Vesuvius erupted (7) 63 Spiritual teacher (4) 64 knight’s metal suit (6) 65 Warning horn (5) 66 aristocratic title (8)
Down
1 make the rounds while keeping guard (6) 2 Heavily fortified city or building (10) 3 Disease prevented by the mmr vaccine (7) 4 David -----, singer, actor and author (5) 5 Heroic tale (4) 6 marine animal with a gelatinous body (9) 7 Pudding (7) 8 Large pink bird (8) 9 Finishing place just out of the medals (6) 10 Purple fruit known in the us as an eggplant (9) 18 Fine sediment deposited by a river (4) 20 Soft shoe material (5) 22 mirror attached to a car’s windscreen (4-4) 25 music style written and played by Scott Joplin (7) 26 one sneaking something past customs (8) 27 Snow house (5) 31 Putting your feet up (8) 32 capital of Finland (8) 34 male chicken (7) 37 Ran for office (5) 41 Pouring tube (5) 44 Peruvian bear found at a London station (10) 45 Wide tree-lined avenue (9) 46 continuing TV or radio series (4,5) 47 Practical joke (4) 49 Storage unit (8) 52 Dissent, object (7) 53 Blotting out of the sun or moon (7) 55 Talking bird (6) 58 monarch’s ceremonial chair (6) 59 Pull strenuously (5) 62 monastery dweller (4)