COVER STORY Prize puzzles and fun quizzes
Solve the crossword to find, reading from top to bottom in the shaded squares, the name of an actress. This is your competition entry answer. See the ‘How to enter’ panel, below right.
Across
1 - - - Bell, The Good Place and Veronica Mars star, pictured below (7) 4 Vegetable that gave Popeye his strength (7) 8 Lack of inhibition, or leave high and dry (7)
12 Underground storey of a building (8) 14 Practice test (5,3) 17 Metal money (4) 18 Muslim God (5) 19 Culinary herb (4)
20 Music And - - -, romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant (6) 21 Finger-shaped creamfilled pastry cake (6)
23 Crowd scene actor (5) 25 Place of combat (5) 26 The chemical process of rusting (9) 27 Cleaning or polishing cloth (6) 29 Doppelganger, or large drink (6) 32 Device for measuring electrical current (7)
35 Round-trip ticket (3,6) 37 Astonishment (9)
39 Pig pen (3) 41 Element whose deficiency in diet can lead to anaemia (4) 42 Another word for a rook in chess (6)
43 - - - Derbyshire, actress who played Corrie’s
Emily Bishop (6)
44 Unit of heredity (4)
45 Heavy weight (3)
47 Describing word (9)
50 Landslide (9)
53 Period of reign of George IV when Prince of Wales (7) 56 Sci-fi horror series starring Winona Ryder,
Stranger - - - (6) 58 Edible legume used to make dhal (6)
60 Awkward or controversial issue (3,6) 62 Bird’s claw (5) 63 Swashbuckling actor played by Jude Law in
The Aviator, - - - Flynn (5)
64 Island off the
Chinese coast (6)
66 Base coat of paint (6)
68 Spice extracted
from nutmeg (4) 70 Mystic Pizza star, - - - Roberts, pictured right (5)
72 Poker stake (4) 73 Australian marsupial (8) 74 French police officer (8) 75 Jools - - -, pianist and TV presenter (7)
76 Whole number (7) 77 Liquidiser (7)
Down
1 Saturday - - -, BBC cookery show hosted by Matt Tebbutt (7)
2 - - - Tully, Corrie role of Antony Cotton (4) 3 Nail file, - - - board (5) 5 Element present in bananas (9)
6 - - - and void, legally invalid (4)
7 - - - The Great, period drama starring Dame Helen Mirren (9) 9 Spicy Asian curry named after the pan in which it is cooked (5) 10 We in France show common sense? (4) 11 Jotter (7) 12 2014 Katy Perry music video featuring many cakes (8) 13 Newspaper boss (6)
15 Love - - -, TV dating reality show (6) 16 Human sight without any aid (5,3) 20 Young Scottish girl (6) 22 Unruly mob (6) 24 Inventor’s licence (6) 28 Film starring Julie Walters, - - - Rita (9) 30 By and large (2,7) 31 Naval officer (7)
32 Die - - - Day,
Bond movie (7)
33 The - - - Children, book by E Nesbit (7) 34 Classic Doncaster horse race (2,5)
36 Washing machine cycle before spin (5) 38 Karen in Will & Grace, - - - Mullally (5) 39 Group of games in tennis (3)
40 Unit of Japanese
currency (3)
46 Leopard-like feline (6)
48 Very dark colour (3,5)
49 Customer (6)
51 Stamen’s pollenbearing part (6) 52 Harry Potter’s Hagrid, Robbie - - - (8) 54 Songwriter, born Reginald Dwight (5,4) 55 Bubbly? (9)
57 Brief spell of rain (6) 58 Soothing or cleansing liquid for the skin (6) 59 Digestive organ (7)
61 Round earring (7)
65 Inert gas (5)
67 Electronic message (5)
69 Nobleman (4)
71 Small street (4)
72 Last word of prayer (4)