TRICKY CROSSWORD!
Both ‘Ginger spice’ Geri Horner and music star noel Gallagher have turned down the offer to appear on which tv programme? Solve the crossword, then read down the shaded squares.
across
1 Children’s play area, pretend beach (7) 5 of an actor, being stuck in the same roles all the time (8) 9 Set of two (4) 13 grassed areas (5) 14 Raging fire (7) 15 Disease transmitted by mosquitoes (7) 16 Subject for talk (5) 17 Rough hut (5) 18 emphasise (6) 20 Drugged, a racehorse
perhaps (5) 21 Church spire (7) 23 Dirty fog (4) 26 Peer of the realm (4) 27 Football team organiser (7) 30 emblems and representative signs (7) 34 Pulpit speeches (7) 36 Majestic building (6) 37 Tree sap (5) 39 Public display at a museum or gallery (10) 40 one nervously waiting at the altar (10) 42 Prize for merit (5) 43 Star sign ‘the twins’ (6) 44 Mild, merciful (7) 46 Fundamental nature (7) 47 Violent rotary storm (7) 48 - - - Sir or Madam,
letter opener (4) 53 Partner in war (4) 54 Personal considered view (7) 55 Showery month (5) 58 62 Across’s continent (6) 60 First appearance of an actor or sportsperson, perhaps (5) 62 Cairo’s country (5) 66 A small-time criminal
or thug (7) 67 Sewer’s finger-cover (7) 68 Legal defence proving non-attendance at the crime (5) 69 Close by (4) 70 Way in (8) 71 Animal, symbolic of
great Britain (7)
Down
1 greeted in military style (7) 2 Daily journal (9) 3 usually, the last part of an address (8) 4 Clip neatly (4) 5 Soya bean curd (4) 6 Bird’s sitting-place (5) 7 Squats close to the ground, often to hide (8) 8 oil reservoir in an engine (4) 10 Share a 54 Across (5) 11 Information board for drivers (4,4) 12 Material (5) 19 Stage dramas (5) 22 Multiply by three (6) 24 Distance marker along a route (9) 25 original or native inhabitant of Australia (9) 26 Nevada gambling town (3, 5) 28 Valuable possessions (6) 29 Sanctioned, confirmed (8) 31 Not permitted, taboo (9) 32 Desert creature with a sting in its tail (8) 33 Person who draws for cartoon films (8) 35 Practice performance (9) 38 Made putrid, gone bad (6) 41 Japanese robe (6) 45 Range, width of influence (5) 49 Proverbially, the thing that
‘catches the worm’ (5,4) 50 Race over 26 miles 385 yards (8) 51 Forefather (8) 52 National summer game of the USA (8) 56 Renting accommodation (7) 57 Skin on top of the head (5) 59 Spanish wine (5) 61 Workers’ association (5) 63 Sign of future events (4) 64 Skilled and competent (4) 65 Flavouring plant (4)