JUMBO XWORD

Read down the letters in the shaded squares to spell out a flower (13).

ACROSS

1 Errors (8)

5 Drinking tube (5)

8 Try (7)

15 Got on one’s knees (5)

16 Splits apart (9)

17 Cinema snack (7)

18 Watchfully (7)

19 Restaurant worker (6)

20 Baffle (7)

23 Desiring food (6)

25 Being present (9)

26 Sketching tool (6)

29 Crestfallen (12)

30 Hollow cylinders (5)

31 Called on the telephone (4) 34 Vanish (9)

36 Famous Los Angeles street, _ _ _ Boulevard (6) 37 Royal rule (5)

40 Film (5)

41 Firstborn, oldest (6) 43 Escort (9)

47 In addition (4)

48 Bruce Willis film, The Sixth _ _ _ (5) 49 Washable tissue made from fabric (12) 53 Drizzled (6) 54 Accurately (9) 55 Toboggan (6) 58 European language (7) 59 Painting supports (6) 60 Salad plant (7)

64 Lived (7)

65 Maths statements (9) 66 Name (5)

67 Remove clothes (7) 68 Unit of length (5) 69 Enveloped (8)

DOWN

1 Manufacture (4)

2 Baby plants (9)

3 Sean Connery, for example (5) 4 Without difficulty (6) 6 Menaced (10) 7 Height above sea level (8) 9 Themes (6) 10 Stretched (8) 11 Diction (13)

12 Speed (abbr) (3) 13 Spacemen (10)

14 Smart, clever (11) 21 Casts off (5) 22 Part of a poem (6) 24 Switched (8) 27 Finishes (9) 28 Ruined (9) 32 Place (3)

33 Hot and humid (8) 35 Police inquiry (13) 38 Self-conscious (11) 39 Function (3) 42 Unearthed (10) 44 Hug (6)

45 Ready reckoner (10) 46 Propose (5)

50 Signals left or right (9) 51 Attendance record (8) 52 David Bowie and Queen song, Under _ _ _ (8) 56 Sunglasses, informally (6) 57 Part of the school day (6) 61 1990 sci-fi action film, _ _ _ Recall (5) 62 Cleaning utensil (3) 63 Curve (4)