BRICK TRICK

Read down the letters in the shaded squares to spell out a type of wine (9,5)

Which exercise system was first developed for and by prisoners of war in World War I? To find out, solve the puzzle… Enter the answers to the clues in the grid. Every word is an anagram of its neighbours, plus or minus a letter. Read the shaded squares in number order for the answer.

1 Best, upper layer of garden earth 2 Damaged

3 Plane operator 4 Hard work 5 Illuminated

6 Wall or floor square 7 Volume of liquid 8 Sell from a shop 9 Music concert

ACROSS

1 Dampness (8)

5 Each (5) 8 Cautious (7) 15 Crowd actor (5) 16 TV segment (9)

17 Tall animal (7) 18 Chums (7)

19 Tree (6)

20 Type of penguin (7) 23 Bushes (6)

25 Law enforcer (9) 26 Puts a price on (6) 29 Amazement (12) 30 Enraged (5) 31 Conceited (4) 34 Unseen, undetectable (9)

36 Central (6)

37 Topic (5)

40 Living and breathing (5) 41 On a ship, train, etc (6) 43 The _ _ _, girl band (9) 47 Sound reflection (4) 48 Sea shore (5) 49 More and more (12) 53 Prickles (6) 54 Cultivated (9) 55 Disregard (6)

58 Play, The Importance

Of Being _ _ _ (7)

59 Not ours! (6) 60 Objected to (7) 64 Strong feeling (7) 65 Next to (9) 66 Noblemen (5) 67 Street number (7) 68 Apart from (5) 69 Manufactured items (8)

DOWN

1 Encounter (4) 2 Translate orally (9) 3 Tantalise (5)

4 White water stretch (6) 6 Degrees of differences (10) 7 Sparked a memory (8) 9 Rowed (6)

10 EU citizen (8)

11 Sadly (13)

12 Looped ribbon (3) 13 Confined (10)

14 Symbolised (11) 21 Prose composition (5) 22 Usual (6) 24 November 5th blazes (8) 27 Guessed (9) 28 Variable (9) 32 Concealed (3) 33 Inspecting (8) 35 Local area (13) 38 Brackets (11)

39 Vase (3)

42 Musical groups (10)

44 Concurred (6) 45 Egged on (10) 46 Uses a keyboard (5) 50 Patterned design (9) 51 Inner (8) 52 Charitable (8) 56 Pebbles (6) 57 Seem (6) 61 Lubricated (5) 62 Be victorious (3) 63 Functions (4)