Fill it! Answer on page 44.

Complete the grid then read down the shaded squares to reveal the hidden answer. Clue: Type of snack.

ACROSS 7 __ Street Preachers, band that recorded If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next and A Design for Life (5) 8 Frozen confectionery (3,6) 10 Maritime song (6) 11 Conflict (8)

12 __ King, star of films Friday the 13th and The

Innocent (8) 13 Monarch of the __, 2000–05 light-hearted TV series starring Alastair Mckenzie and Richard Briers (4)

15 The __ __, 2024 action comedy film starring 26 Across, 6 Down, 9 Down, and 24 Down (4,3) 17 Annette __, actor who played Margaret Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave (7)

20 Pig meat (4)

22 Dolly __, Everything I Know About Love author

(8)

25 2006 No 1 single by Take That (8) 26 __ Waddingham, star of film Winter Ridge and

TV series Ted Lasso (6)

27 Game show hosted by Alexander Armstrong (9) 28 __ Fonda, star of films The Grapes of Wrath and The Wrong Man (5) DOWN

1 Winchester __, 1966 song by the New Vaudeville Band (9)

2 Every other year (8)

3 James __, comedian and Hypothetical host (7) 4 Mr __, Peter Rabbit’s nemesis (8) 5 Football division (6)

6 __ Blunt, star of films The Devil Wears Prada and Edge of Tomorrow (5)

9 __ Gosling, star of films La La Land and The

Notebook (4)

14 1991–94 prehistoric puppet sitcom starring the voices of Stuart Pankin and Allan Trautman (9)

16 Not nice (8)

18 __ on the Shore, 1961 No 1 single by Acker Bilk

(8)

19 __ Redgrave, star of films Howards End and

Letters to Juliet (7)

21 Murder on the __ Express, 1934 Agatha Christie whodunnit adapted for film and TV multiple times (6)

23 Roald __, author of Charlie and the Chocolate

Factory and The BFG (4)

24 __ Taylor-johnson, star of films The Wall and

Anna Karenina (5)