THE JUMBO PUZZLE
YOU CAN WIN £50
GIVE your brain a workout and win some cash. There’s £50 for the sender of the first correct Jumbo Crossword drawn from the postbag after the closing date of March 6. Just fill in the crossword and send it, with your name and address, to: Daily Star Jumbo Crossword, PO Box 12579, Sutton Coldfield, B73 9BU. Last week’s winner was Mr Ande Davies, Wallasey.
ACROSS
1 French for Miss (12)
7 and 1 Down Anne in Warren – last Monday, BBC1 (4,7)
11 Plant also called alfalfa (7)
12 See 70 Across
13 See 25 Down
15 Drug (6)
16 Typified (11)
20 Throws out (6)
22 See 29 Across
24 and 60 Across Jennie in This Time with Alan Partridge – last Monday, BBC1 (8,8)
26 City noted for its Leaning Tower (4)
28 Cloak (4)
29 and 22 Across Zezi in Shetland – last Tuesday, BBC1 (6,6)
31 Rises (7)
32 Response (8)
35 See 33 Down
37 Test (4)
38 and 45 Down DI Marlowe in Shakespeare & Hathaway – Private Investigators – last Monday, BBC1 (5,3)
41 Time required to carry out a task (10)
42 Metal flute-like instrument (3,7)
44 Strip to fasten (5)
46 Greek god of love (4)
47 Clever clogs (5,4)
52 Tube-shaped pasta (8)
54 Pink prickly wild flower (3,4)
56 and 64 Down Connie in Call the Midwife – last Sunday,
BBC1 (6,7)
58 Naming word (4)
59 Genuine (4)
60 See 24 Across
62 and 48 Down Isla in Endeavour – last Sunday, ITV (6,7)
63 Getaway (6)
68 Obliging (11)
70 and 12 Across Female co-presenter of Food: Truth or Scare – last Monday, BBC1 (6,9) 71 European country; capital Rome (5)
73 See 75 Across
74 Extremely slow (7)
75 and 73 Across Hugh Fenton in Traitors – last Sunday, Channel
4 (4,9)
76 Without respect (12)
DOWN
1 See 7 Across
2 Physician (6)
3 Scottish term day;
11th November (9)
4 Personae (10)
5 Aural repetition (4)
6 Persist (6)
8 Presses (5)
9 Items added at the end of a book (7)
10 Seventh sign of the zodiac (5)
13 Fastest land animal (7)
14 Observable (5)
17 Boredom (5)
18 Reddish (5)
19 Front part of leg (4)
21 Wrenches with fixed jaws (8)
23 French loaf (8)
24 Unique identification mark on a product (6,6)
25 and 13 Across DI Mark Addison in Doctors – last Tuesday, BBC1 (4,5)
27 Protecting from harm or damage (12)
30 Exhausted (3,2)
33 and 35 Across Edward Stratton in Baptiste – last Sunday, BBC1 (3,9)
34 Lie on top of (7)
36 Genus of cacti; the prickly pears (7)
39 Mythological king of Ithaca (8)
40 Member of a Native American people of the southern US (8)
43 Booth (5)
45 See 38 Across
48 See 62 Across
49 Asian desert (4)
50 Madness (5)
51 Illustrated lecture by a globetrotter (10)
52 Tube of fur used as a hand-warmer (4)
53 Light fabric with a crinkled surface (5)
55 Flight of steps (9)
57 Domesticated South American cudchewing animal (5)
61 Type of watch (7)
64 See 56 Across
65 Soft leather (5)
66 Produce blooms (6)
67 Lasso (6)
69 Short holiday (5)
72 Kind (4)