Jumbo Puzzle
Simply fill in the crossword (right) and read down the letters in the shaded squares to reveal a word for an obstructive tactic in politics aimed at impeding legislation (10)
Across aCroSS 1 Kidney-shaped nut (6) 4 Dirty blurred mark (6) 8 Reversed (of a garment) (6,3)
14 Wart on the foot (7)
15 Part of the body above the waist (7)
16 Find an answer to (a problem) (7)
18 Fame, good name (10) 19 Rolling___, Mick Jagger’s group (6)
20 Hospital ward worker (5) 22 Suffocate in water (5) 24 Piece of fine mesh for the head (7)
25 Wallpaper adhesive (5) 27 Drinking vessel; window material (5)
30 Person banished abroad (5)
33 Recording of a film or TV programme (5)
36 Pantomime with the Ugly Sisters (10)
37 Janitors (10)
39 Start of the working week (6)
42 Paved part of a garden (5) 43 Nut used to make marzipan (6)
45 Intruder on private land (10)
46 Related to horseback riding (10)
47 Keen (5)
51 Former Mrs Trump (5)
53 40/40 at tennis (5)
56 ___Turner, star of the 2015 series of Poldark (5)
58 Educational establishment (7)
59 ___ Aloud, female pop group (5)
62 Subject for discussion (5)
63 Tell tales or a police informer (6)
64 Borrow more from a building society (10)
67 Glowing with happiness (7)
70 Act as a magnet (7)
71 Censure, rebuke harshly (7)
72 Bother (9) 73 Sweet-tasting (6) 74 Swapped (6)
Down 1 Concealed, veiled (7)
2 Thick, sweet, sticky liquid (5)
3 Volcanically exploding (8) 5 Extinct tusked creatures (8) 6 As dead as a ___, extinct (4) 7 Life, survival (9)
8 Endless or having no limit (8)
9 Put emphasis on (6)
10 ___ Lynam, sports presenter (3)
11 Large-eyed bird (3)
12 Walked unsteadily (8)
13 ___Cole, bestselling crime writer (7)
17 Ore___, broadcaster and 2016 Strictly champion (5)
21 The 1944 Colette novel of a young
Parisian (4)
23 Exceeded in quantity (11) 25 Foot-propelled pleasure boat (6)
26 DIY tool (11)
28 Glaring, shocking (5) 29 Stupid, foolish (5) 31 Absolutely perfect (5) 32 Mark over a letter (6) 33 Mythical bloodsucking person with fangs (7)
34 Controlling food intake (7)
35 Autumn month (7)
38 ___ Miller, actress (6) 40 Small cloth for diners (6) 41 On a ship (2,3)
43 Make (a person) laugh (5) 44 Noise made by an orchestra, for example (5) 48 Assigns (9)
49 Level (4) 50 Disease-carrying microbes (8)
52 Make operative, set in motion (8)
53 Person deserting a political party to join the opposition (8)
54 Heathen, without religion (7)
55 Kitchen sandglass (3-5)
57 Defence alleging a suspect was elsewhere (5)
60 Having a pleasant smell (7)
61 __ _ Kutcher, star of Two and a Half Men (6) 65 Prize, decoration (5) 66 Sharp flavour (4) 68 Uproar, racket (3) 69 ___ Winehouse, singer/songwriter (3)
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