PRIZE CROSSWORD

For the chance to win £150, complete the crossword puzzle, and the yellow squares – reading from top to bottom – will spell out a word linked to the pictured soap character…

ACROSS

3 & 24D Town located very near to Summer Bay (6,5)

7 & 32A Actress who plays the second incarnation of Eastender Michelle Fowler (5,7)

8 & 26A Lawyer who often provides assistance to the Mitchells in Eastenders (7,5)

9 __ Cleaver, actress who plays Phelan’s wife Eileen in Coronation Street (3)

11 Last name of soap siblings Aadi and Asha in Corrie (6)

13 & 38D Scared Emmerdale lad who destroyed the last video recorded by his dad before his tragic death (6,6)

16 Emmerdale villager

Leyla Harding, who almost became __ Pete Barton (3)

17 & 4D Actor who plays

The Mill Health Centre medic Dr Heston Carter (4,7)

18 See 42D

21 & 39A Coronation Street actor who has played mechanic Kevin Webster for more than three decades (7,2,4)

23 Actor who plays Dan Spencer in Emmerdale (4,3)

26 See 8A

28 Unlikely profession of unhinged Emmerdale village woman Emma Barton (5)

32 See 7A

33 Hotel complex that is located in Erinsborough (9)

37 Daughter of 23A’s alter ego in Emmerdale (6)

39 See 21A

40 Local businessman who was referred to as ‘Dad’ by 29D in Eastenders (3) 41 See 44D 43 Where Hollyoaks character Darren Osborne is serving time for dealing drugs (6)

45 Cold stuff kept in a bucket on the bar of the Woolpack in

Emmerdale and the Rovers

Return in Coronation Street (3) 47 The Hotten __, newspaper that’s delivered to the residents of Emmerdale village (7)

48 __ Lomax, Hollyoaks village woman who works as a nurse at Dee Valley Hospital (5)

49 & 6D Scott Drinkwell’s birth mother in Hollyoaks (6,8)

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1 & 30D Actress who plays

Bob Hope’s other half, Brenda, in Emmerdale (6,6)

2 __ Carmichael, general practitioner in Doctors (4)

3 Answer given when Johnny Connor proposed to Jenny Bradley in Coronation Street (3)

4 See 17A

5 He was suspected of targeting Nick’s Bistro to get revenge on Robert Preston in Corrie (4)

6 See 49A

10 __ Akhtar, actor who plays cobbles fella Zeedan Nazir (5) 12 Laura __, plays the fiancée

of 23A’s alter ego in the Dales (6) 14 Barmaid back in her role at the Queen Vic in Eastenders (6)

15 Daughter of 48A whose biological mother is Diane Hutchinson in Hollyoaks (4)

19 Group of students who are taught by Nancy Osborne at Hollyoaks High School (5)

20 Civic position that Weatherfield residents Sally Metcalfe and Kirk Sutherland are wrestling over (5) 22 __ Fletcher, long-time

Neighbours actor (4) 24 See 3A

25 See 29D

27 Streetcars is a __ firm that is based on the cobbles (4)

29 & 25D Eastender who perished after a fire he started at his family’s restaurant (6,5)

30 See 1D

31 Actor who plays vengeful Square bloke Max Branning (4,4)

34 Restaurant owned by the Morgans in Home and Away (4)

35 Less formal first name for Walford’s Shirley Carter (5)

36 Strictly Come __, competition featuring soap stars Davood Ghadami and Gemma Atkinson (7)

38 See 13A

42 & 18A Receptionist at

Holby City Hospital’s ED (4,6) 44 & 41A Much-loved

Coronation Street lady who has recently been diagnosed with a brain tumour (4,6)

46 __ Morey, actress who has played Neighbours’ Sonya Rebecchi since 2009 (3)