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Phwoar – it’s a whopper! Enjoy your puzzling
What links American music stars Beyoncé and Kesha? To find out, solve the crossword then read down the shaded squares to find the three-word prize answer.
ACROSS
1 Beer factory (7) 5 Way in (8) 9 One 36th of 4 Down (4) 13 Tennis-playing area (5) 14 Book in advance (7) 15 Exact copy (7) 16 Smallest number (5) 17 Set to go (5) 18 Poorly (6) 20 Glow (5) 21 Broad utensil for cooking (7) 23 Political news manipulation (4) 26 Archaeological sites (4) 27 Tall African animal (7) 30 Kitchen item for keeping food ice-cold (7) 34 Follow usual custom (7) 36 Toxin (6) 37 Female relative (5) 39 ‘Better than cure’, as the saying goes (10) 40 Representative of a foreign government (10) 42 Derby town in Surrey (5) 43 Play text (6) 44 Plains in North America (7) 46 Screen showing words for speaker (7) 47 Scrupulously exact (7) 48 Room in a hospital (4) 53 Behind time (4) 54 Peculiar (7) 55 Steamy room (5) 58 One who suffers for a cause (6) 60 Stretchy fabric worn by cyclists, perhaps (5) 62 Extraterrestrial being (5) 66 Imagine, for argument’s sake (7) 67 Female pride member (7) 68 Ecstasy (5) 69 Wipe with a cloth (4) 70 Set free (8) 71 Tough choice (7)
DOWN
1 Fastenings (7) 2 Teaching (9) 3 Having a right to (8) 4 Word that can follow farm, dock, vine, church and 13 Across (4) 5 Ninety degrees anticlockwise from South (4) 6 Number of feet in a 4 Down (5) 7 Funny story (8) 8 Stiff paper (4) 10 Racket (5) 11 Title in a newspaper (8) 12 Backbone (5) 19 Bright light (5) 22 Seabird with a colourful beak (6) 24 Claimant to the throne (9) 25 Middle of the normal working week (9) 26 Break a code (8) 28 Occupant of a prison (6) 29 Get closer to (8) 31 Holiday taken straight after marriage (9) 32 Beauty preparation (8) 33 Make a pal of (8) 35 ‘--- --- when the devil drives,’ proverb (5,4) 38 University grounds (6) 41 Drilling platform for crude (3,3) 45 Window pane sealant (5) 49 Light metal, symbol Al (9) 50 Caught a quick sight of (8) 51 Police uniform colour (4,4) 52 Turkish city (8) 56 Loss of memory (7) 57 Power cable tower (5) 59 Thick cords (5) 61 Spanish wine (5) 63 Abominable snowman (4) 64 Unit carrying characteristics in DNA (4) 65 Second-hand (4)