Mega CROSSWORD

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

MYSTERY CLUE

5ac & 30dn.

Oscar-winning Kiwi comedian and musician (4,8)

ACROSS

1 Tomato sauce (7)

5 See Mystery Clue

7 Shrill cry (6)

11 Flower associated

with Holland (5)

15 Bone of the leg (5)

16 Maid Marian’s lover (5,4)

17 Swim in the nude (6-3)

18 Affirmative (3)

19 Italian pasta sauce (5)

20 Chill (3)

21 Stairs (5)

23 Polite (5)

25 Tome place-keeper (8)

27 Regain or recover (6)

29 Very big (7)

33 Type of seaweed (4)

35 Evening social gathering (6)

36 Sensitive to a Smile

band (5)

38 Bungling, clumsy (7)

40 Confusion, tumult (6)

41 Human-like figure of

Jewish folklore (5)

43 Energy, vitality (5)

45 New, fresh (5)

48 Earthy pigment (5)

49 Tendon (5)

50 Jewelled headpiece (5)

51 Smother (6)

53 Long, tedious discussion (7)

56 Madagascan arboreal

mammal (5)

57 Woman (6)

58 See upper-right photo (4)

60 Charm, captivate (7)

61 Lake resort town just north of Queenstown (6)

63 Vale (8)

66 Eighth letter of the

Greek alphabet (5)

68 Interior design (5)

70 Sailor’s spirit (3)

72 Barry ___, A Good Keen

Man author (5)

74 Flying mammal (3)

76 Churchgoer (9)

79 Super-simple (9)

80 Spooky (5)

81 Flax material (5)

82 Alloy of copper and tin (6)

83 State of torment (4)

84 Clump of grass (7)

DOWN

1 Pool of funds (5)

2 Brand of hot sauce (7)

3 Home-warming

appliance (4,4)

4 Capital of France (5)

5 Short-tailed monkey (6)

6 Boredom (5)

8 Brick carrier (3)

9 Point in question (5)

10 Colourful carp (3)

11 Gin mixer (5)

12 Boy (3)

13 Scholar (5)

14 Precede (6)

21 Powerful stellar explosion (9)

22 Apia’s country (5)

24 Stringed instrument (5)

25 Cook in the oven (4)

26 Four-sided shape (7)

28 Biblical first woman (3)

30 See Mystery Clue

31 Tightly packed group (6)

32 Something from which

a copy is made (8)

34 Giggle (5)

36 Pet banned in NZ (7)

37 Feelings of compassion (8)

39 Viewer (8)

42 See lower-left photo (9)

44 Cry of praise (7)

46 Iconic Kiwi house style (5)

47 Hairpiece (6)

52 Bucket (4)

54 Milky coffee (5)

55 Annoyed (5)

57 Chinese frying pan (3)

59 Incapable (8)

62 Thin (6)

64 Trade ban (7)

65 Large number of fish (6)

66 Drying cloth (5)

67 Very pale (5)

69 Boat’s load (5)

71 Pancake syrup (5)

73 Out of shape (5)

75 Small alteration (5)

77 Ladder (3)

78 Inn (3)

79 Moroccan hat (3)