Jumbo Puzzle

Simply fill in the crossword (right) and read down the letters in the shaded squares to spell out a classic Hollywood movie star (5,5)

Across

1 Winner of a contest or conflict(6)

4 Explode (4,2)

8 Used up, exhausted(6,3) 14 Male chicken (7) 15 Nonattendance (7) 16 Different form (7) 18 Beginning to doze(7,3) 19 Academic essay (6) 20 Bread maker (5)

22 Walk in a relaxed manner (5)

24 Dodging (of taxes) (7)

25 Fix in the mind (5)

27 Thick, viscous (5) 30 Musical term for speed and rhythm(5)

33 Busy Kent port(5) 36 Wrong (10)

37 Sews decoratively (10) 39 Expensive (6)

42 Hard area in a garden (5) 43 Catchy phrase used in advertising (6)

45 Takes apart(10)

46 Works towards the same ends (10)

47 Run away to marry(5) 51 Sounds of gunfire (5) 53 Person using snow runners (5)

56 Part of a song(5)

58 Track beside a canal (7) 59 With equal stakes on both sides in a bet (5)

62 Relating to the countryside (5)

63 Presented (a TV show, for example) (6)

64 Salad sauce (10) 67 Motivate (7)

70 Hormone that controls blood sugar (7) 71 TV watchers(7) 72 Springtime chocolate gift (6,3)

73 Stinging plant (6)

74 Taken by thieves (6)

Down

1 Covered porch (7)

2 Mass of water droplets in the sky(5)

3 Acquired (8)

5 More eco-friendly

(petrol) (4-4)

6 Fine strand

(of hair) (4)

7 Joke’s ending (9)

8 Colourful game bird (8)

9 Give tips or guidance (6)

10 Make a mistake (3)

11 Fish roe (3)

12 Teaching on a one-to-one basis (8)

13 Diver with flippers and air tanks(7)

17 Angry, enraged(5)

21 Ring denoting sainthood (4)

23 Person on the radio or TV(11)

25 Tender, adoring (6) 26 Choice between possibilities (11)

28 Explode, like a volcano (5)

29 Sheltered from light (5) 31 Wall painting (5) 32 Slanted (6)

33 Hate, loathe(7) 34 Dizziness from heights (7)

35 Feel delight, make merry(7)

38 Marriage partner(6) 40 Few and far between (6)

41 Bingo-like game(5) 43 Ghost, or spy? (5) 44 Very fat(5) 48 Holiday resort’s quiet period(3,6)

49 Yellowish-green fruit (4)

50 Extra work for extra money (8) 52 Hoarding away (8) 53 Fragment scattered by an explosion (8)

54 Engage as a participant (7)

55 Put back

(profits) (8)

57 Opposite of blunt (5)

60 Wife’s child by a previous marriage (7)

61 Brie and Cheddar, for example (6)

65 Absolutely perfect (5)

66 Apartment (4) 68 Appeal for help or rescue (initials)(3)

69 Solid water (3)