Books & Puzzles
what links the families in which country music legend Dolly parton and actor Mark Wahlberg grew up? Solve the crossword, then read down the shaded squares.
across
1 Spouse (7) 5 ______ to Heaven, Led Zeppelin classic (8) 9 Desert grains (4) 13 Regulations (5) 14 Number in a Rugby Union side (7) 15 Make louder (7) 16 Cruise ship (5) 17 Nation (5) 18 Swiss breakfast cereal (6) 20 Soft brushed leather (5) 21 Gradually diminish to nothing (7) 23 Fine netting (4) 26 Itemise (4) 27 Pear-shaped fruit (7) 30 Painter’s repeating pattern (7) 34 Since, on account of (7) 36 Small hawk (6) 37 Lift with great effort (5) 39 Fourth digit on the left hand (4,6)
40 Audition for a film role on camera (6,4) 42 Have confidence in (5) 43 Fisherman with rod and reel (6) 44 Booze (7) 46 Inhale and exhale (7) 47 Fellow soldier (7) 48 Sound like a snake (4) 53 Painfully tender (4) 54 Pills (7) 55 Love’s little archer (5) 58 Set of steps (6) 60 Edition of a publication (5) 62 Name of a book (5) 66 Pull the ends of a knot, make more secure (7)
67 Bare rocks protruding from the ground (7) 68 Encounters (5) 69 Sketch (4) 70 Putting others first (8) 71 Continuing without any break (3-4)
DOWN
1 Barriers to jump on an athletics track (7)
2 Thin slivers of wood, painful in caught if a finger (9) 3 Wholly engrossed (8) 4 Silly (4) 5 Mild, gentle (4) 6 Wide awake, watchful (5) 7 Phone noise (8) 8 Eden resident (4) 10 Assumed name (5) 11 Direct solar illumination (8)
12 Pouring tube on the side of a teapot (5)
19 Roofing material from split rocks (5) 22 Walk like a duck (6) 24 Name of two queens of England (9)
25 If you’re skating here, you’re taking a big risk (2,4,3) 26 Set free (8) 28 Capital of Austria (6) 29 Mild stimulant found in coffee (8)
31 Train carriage where food and drink is available (6,3)
32 Magician, caster of spells (8) 33 Cold-blooded animals (8) 35 William the ______, king crowned in 1066 (9) 38 Insist upon (6) 41 Very nearly (6) 45 Inexpensive (5) 49 Restless, anxious to progress (9)
50 Separated, quarantined (8)
51 What happens when you get past 1 Down in a rocket’s countdown (5-3)
52 The Flying ______, famous steam locomotive (8) 56 Put on your glad rags (5,2) 57 Word that can come before officer, crime and cash (5) 59 Fixed doctrine (5) 61 Release a knot or a bow (5) 63 Single time (4) 64 Coloured part of eye (4) 65 Revolve rapidly (4)