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

4 __ Gibbons, former Erinsborough doctor (5)

9 See 43A

10 See 2D

11 & 44A Dawn Taylor’s husband who Manpreet Sharma fancies in Emmerdale (5,8)

12 Baby Isla was __ to Nicolette Stone in 2021 in Neighbours (4)

14 __ Newman, made a shock discovery watching one of Stevie Marlow’s films in Home and Away (4)

15 Baby son of 11A

diagnosed with leukaemia in Emmerdale (4)

16 __ Knight, barmaid at the Queen Vic in Walford (4)

17 __ Grimshaw, hard-working

Coronation Street lady (6)

18 Casualty’s Cameron Mickelthwaite, Jodie Whyte, etc are all __ (6)

19 Relation that Jarrod ‘Toadfish’ Rebecchi is to Nell in Neighbours (3)

22 & 32D Married name of the former manager of Trim Up North in Weatherfield (5,7)

24 See 12D

26 Neighbours’ Holly Hoyland is played by _ Armstrong-Hall (7)

29 & 7D Charity’s granddaughter who wants to be a mechanic in the Dales (5,6)

31 Nickname of Alf Stewart’s offspring Ruth in the Bay (3)

33 __ Wall, returned to

Hollyoaks as prison inmate Grace Black (6)

35 McQueen relative played by actress Chelsee Healey in Hollyoaks (6)

36 Walford salon Fox & __ (4) 37 Continent where Corrie bloke 30D has close family (4)

39 __ Pearce, suspects Nadine Keller is trying to scam her stepdad Jay Brown (4)

40 Tasty bread served as a side at Speed Daal in Corrie (4)

42 __ Kirk, Mandy Dingle’s fiancé in the Dales… again (5)

43 & 9A Twisted Hollyoaks teacher who kidnapped Lucas Hay (6,8)

44 See 11A

45 Son of Nancy and Darren Osbourne in Hollyoaks (5)

DOWN

1 __ Hathaway, departed Chester in a taxi with Shing-Lin Leong (7)

2 & 10A Leah Patterson’s nephew who has been taking drugs supplied by 6D in Home and Away (4,6)

3 __ Henry, star behind EastEnders’ 16A (9)

5 Kirsty-__ Porter, Hollyoaks actress who has played Leela Lomax for over a decade (5)

6 __ Beauont, Summer

Bay newcomer who feels betrayed by 2D (7)

7 See 29A

8 & 21D EastEnders character undergoing IVF, delighted to be pregnant at last… (5,6) 12 & 24A …and her loud sister, famed for her silver puff jackets (6,7)

13 Sister of 17A’s other half George Shuttleworth in Coronation Street (6)

19 __ Clarke, briefly married to Jane Harris in Neighbours (3)

20 __ Osbourne, has been digging into missing Lauren Bolton’s case in Corrie (6)

21 See 8D

23 Walford’s Honey Mitchell __ the London Marathon (3)

25 Sort of vehicle that Mackenzie Hargreaves was driving when she hit Haz Devkar in Neighbours (3)

27 Sound pigeons make as they traverse the cobbles (3) 28 Actor who plays Bear Sylvester in Doctors (3,3)

29 Grandfather of Dales baby Esther Spencer (3,6)

30 Weatherfield business owner Dev __ (6)

32 See 22A

34 __ Stevenson, actor who plays Casualty paramedic Iain Dean (7)

35 __ Pierce, actor who plays 17A’s son Todd in Coronation Street (6)

38 __ Kennedy, has been offered a job at Eirini Rising as her husband’s boss in Neighbours (5)

39 First name of 29D’s wife in the Dales (5)

41 Summer Bay __, garage (4)