Mega CROSSWORD

✚ When complete, the shaded letters will reveal a well-known personality (see mystery clue below).

MYSTERY CLUE

6dn & 8dn.

Businessman and former politician (3,4,3)

ACROSS

1 Dessert sauce (7)

5 Orient (4)

7 Very thin (6)

11 Garden divide (5)

15 Wild animal (5)

16 Riotous group (3)

17 Spacious (5)

18 Lack of courage (9)

19 See upper-right photo (3,4)

20 Muddled, light-headed (5)

21 Hit hard (4)

22 Sheep’s wool (6)

24 Green vegetable (4)

26 Garden watering device (9)

28 Homeless wanderer (7)

31 Discussion (6)

32 Collision (6)

34 Tree family to which the

po¯ hutukawa belongs (6)

36 Ornamental band (4)

40 World-weary, distrusting (7)

42 Strange person (6)

44 Stinging insect (4)

46 Does as told (5)

48 Potato, for example (5)

50 Silly (4)

51 Run (6)

52 Italian potato dumplings (7)

55 Small drink of whisky (4)

56 Desire, longing (6)

58 Charles M. Schulz’s famous dog (6)

60 Twine (6)

64 Advanced film screening (7) 65 See lower-left photo (9) 67 Ship’s company (4)

69 Ill-will (6)

71 Mahi (4)

73 Of the country (5) 75 Punishment (7)

78 Learning (9)

79 Fate (5)

80 Stomach (3)

81 Subdue, put down (5) 82 Lowest point (5)

83 Vim, vigour (6)

84 Celebrity (4)

85 Small town northeast of Greymouth (7)

DOWN

1 Human-like robot (6)

2 Jargon, vernacular (5)

3 Spaceman (9)

4 Raze (8)

5 Nudge (5)

6 See Mystery Clue

8 See Mystery Clue

9 Mexican snack (5)

10 Sign of fatigue (4)

11 Art of clock-making (8)

12 Ambition (5)

13 Sir Edmund Hillary’s

mount (7)

14 Speaker of many

languages (8)

21 Steal apples (6)

23 Cricket ground (4)

25 Keith ___, Kiwi country

music star (5)

27 Edge (3)

29 Conscious (5) 30 Schooled (8)

33 Keen (4)

35 Cook in the oven (5)

37 Hawke’s Bay city (8)

38 Trudge (4)

39 Piece for a lone musician (4)

41 Remedy (4)

42 Ice-cream biscuit (5)

43 Snack food served with

chips or crudités (3)

45 Leaf of a book (4)

47 Greek pastry (4)

49 Sir Peter ___, late sailor (5)

53 Felony (5)

54 Assault (6)

57 Cry like a wolf (4)

58 Wide-brimmed hat (8)

59 Mate (3)

61 Way of performing a task (9)

62 Round (8)

63 Electronic device (8)

64 Large gourd (7)

66 Inactive (7)

68 Crushing snake (6)

70 ___ Jones, Mr Pip author (5)

72 Very overweight (5)

74 Fizzy beer (5)

76 Smallest amount (5)

77 Side (4)

79 Beer barrel (3)

Solution next week