TRICKY CROSSWORD!
Before making it big in the acting business, US actress Geena Davis made a living pretending to be what inanimate object? Solve the crossword, then read down the shaded squares.
ACROSS
11 Phrase offered following a sneeze! (5,3) 12 moorland (5) 13 Talkative bird (6) 14 indonesian holiday island (4) 15 Permitted (7) 16 Weird, strange (8) 17 material such as bone china or earthenware (7) 18 Second in line to the throne (7) 19 Himalayan mythical monster (4) 21 Liquid (5) 23 element used to make computer chips (7) 24 game played with 22 balls and 6 pockets (7) 28 Sign of tiredness (4) 29 Beaker (3) 30 Second in charge (6) 33 characteristic sign of illness (7) 35 expected golf score (3) 36 Low-ranking chess piece (4) 38 Farm outbuilding (4) 39 Small hotel (3) 40 Shrill sound (7) 42 Building housing historic
items (6) 43 Lubricating fluid (3) 44 opera showstopper (4) 48 oaty biscuits (7) 50 Stop from happening (7) 51 Theatre part (5) 54 Particular place (4) 56 Paint using a template (7) 57 Line around the middle of the earth (7) 60 Salad vegetable, proverbially cool (8) 61 Staying power (7) 63 Story (4) 64 chum, buddy (6) 65 girl who visited Wonderland (5) 66 completely change so it appears brand new (8)
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1 Polite request (6) 2 considered opinion, judgement (10) 3 giant egyptian tomb (7) 4 Feather pen (5) 5 Defrost (4) 6 Yellow-flowered weed found in lawns and verges (9) 7 charlie - - -, silent movie comedian (7) 8 Representative sample (8) 9 Soft felt hat (6) 10 ongoing payments to artistes for sales or reuses (9) 18 Small dam (4) 20 zodiac maiden (5) 22 366-day period (4, 4) 25 eight-limbed creature (7) 26 Discourteous, rude (8) 27 change to suit (5) 31 Ship’s cabin window (8) 32 Residential building, home (8) 34 antarctic bird (7) 37 garden ornament (5) 41 Sixteen ounces (5) 44 alluring, good looking (10) 45 Fragrant dried petals (9) 46 athlete’s outer layer
garments (5,4) 47 egg-shaped (4) 49 meddling, nosy person (8) 52 gossip, rumour (7) 53 Dirty and sordid (7) 55 Travelled around (6) 58 Rectangle (6) 59 Daily journal (5) 62 Pinnacle, summit (4)