PRIZE CROSSWORD

For the chance to win £100, 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 & 11A Eastender who is currently being blackmailed by Ben Mitchell (6,6)

7 & 4D Co-owner of the Pier Diner in Summer Bay (5,7)

8 & 31D Erinsborough medic who is dating her colleague Clive Gibbons (7,8)

9 Baby son of 18A who lives with his mum Rebecca White in Emmerdale (3)

11 See 3A

13 Public house owned by Hollyoaks village resident Mercedes Mcqueen (3,3)

16 __ Stewart, teaches at Summer Bay High (3)

17 __ Fletcher, ex-brookside actress who plays Diane Hutchinson in Hollyoaks (4)

18 __ Sugden, Emmerdale villager who wanted to run away from a possible life sentence (6)

21 Young daughter of David and his late wife Kylie in Coronation Street (4,5)

23 Ric __, Holby City bloke with a brain tumour (7)

26 Religion that troubled

Albert Square lad Bobby

Beale has converted to (5)

28 Legal proceeding that 7A recently stood for attacking Tommy in the Bay (5)

32 Ryan __, Jarrod ‘Toadie’ Rebecchi in Neighbours (7)

33 Anna __, actress who played mechanic Coco Astoni in Home and Away (9)

37 __ Mealing, actress who plays Connie Beauchamp in Casualty (6)

39 Youngest child of former Albert Square woman Kim Fox-hubbard (4)

40 Lethal weapon that

Hunter Owen brandished in Eastenders (3)

41 Type of flower that Corrie’s Tracy Mcdonald might sell (6)

43 The Rovers __, popular pub among cobbles locals (6)

45 Not well, like Albert Square woman Jean Slater has been (3) 47 See 15D

48 & 49A He fled Emmerdale with his husband 18A (5,6)

49 See 48A

DOWN

1 __ Hathaway, pregnant Hollyoaks teenager (6)

2 __ Barton, wrongfully suspected of being Moira Dingle’s lover in the Dales (4)

3 Once married, Walford’s Tiff Butcher will be __ Baker (3)

4 See 7A

5 Emma __, GP at The Mill in Letherbridge (4)

6 Liv __, 48A’s half-sister and housemate in the Dales (8)

10 Backless seat like the punters sit on in Albert Square boozer the Queen Vic (5)

12 __ Jackson, left Walford to be with his injured son Sami (6)

14 Ken Barlow’s canine companion in Corrie (6)

15 & 47A Coronation Street lady who has been holidaying in Thailand (4,7)

19 __ Bailey, Lorna Laidlaw’s character in Corrie (5)

20 __ Mitchell, once worked as an undertaker in Walford (5)

22 Measure of drink served at Hollyoaks pub 13A and 43A in Weatherfield (4)

24 & 25D Deceased ex of 23A who appeared to him in a dream in Holby (5,5)

25 See 24D

27 Food list found on the tables at the Hutch in Hollyoaks (4)

29 Rosie __, winner of Inside Soap’s Best Drama Star award who plays 23A’s colleague Jac Naylor in Holby (6)

30 See 46D

31 See 8A

34 One of new mother Gemma Winter’s four babies in Coronation Street (4)

35 See 38D

36 Surname of Ramsay Street resident Sheila (7)

38 & 35D Woman prepared to fight for custody of her grandson Max Turner in Coronation Street (6,5)

42 In Neighbours, Ned Willis is Imogen’s __-brother (4)

44 __ Crowhurst, Holby

City stalker who was left to die by Cameron Dunn (4)

46 & 30D Rapist who died after being attacked by 18A in Emmerdale (3,6)