Jumbo Puzzle
Read down the letters in the shaded squares to spell out a breakfast cereal
ACROSS
1 Touch lovingly (6) 4 Chocolate‑covered cream cake (6)
8 Sincere (9)
14 Set free, liberate (7) 15 Children’s garden toy (7) 16 Burst violently (7)
18 Vessel used on canals (10) 19 Powerful businessman (6) 20 Be a busybody (5) 22 Latin‑American dance (5) 24 Easy to adore (7)
25 Push hard, squeeze or crush (5)
27 Drivers’ resting place (3‑2)
30 Cake eaten with cream and jam (5)
33 Painful mouth sore (5) 36 Romantic dalliance (10) 37 Most miserable (10) 39 Smooth and shiny (6) 42 Woolly South American animal (5)
43 Special ability (6) 45 Buildings (10)
46 Sharing out (10)
47 Apron (5)
51 Fragrant, mauve shrub (5) 53 Spicy Mexican sauce or dip (5)
56 Constant watch (5) 58 Person rejected by society (7)
59 Shoot or sprout of a tree (5)
62 Put your feet up (5)
63 Look up to (6)
64 Person trained to give guidance on personal problems (10)
67 Intense blaze (7)
70 Reckless motorist (4,3) 71 Hug warmly (7)
72 Place to deposit money when a bank is closed (5,4)
73 Sell to another country (6)
74 Niche, alcove (6)
DOWN
1 Official who holds inquests into unusual deaths (7)
2 Measuring stick (5) 3 Available only at certain times of the year (8)
5 Informally
(dressed) (8)
6 Uncle’s wife (4)
7 May be given back
(of money) (9)
8 Headgear cases (8) 9 Growing old (6)
10 Fixture on a bath (3)
11 Sense of self‑importance (3)
12 Enter private land (8) 13 Famous London sports stadium (7)
17 Solitary type (5) 21 Wickedness (4)
23 Feigning illness to avoid work (11)
25 Human beings (6) 26 Showbiz personality (11) 28 Accumulate (5)
29 Of water, salty (5)
31 44th president of the USA (5)
32 Dessert, colloquially (6) 33 Remove the buckle from (7)
34 Holiday home on wheels (7)
35 Fugitive, deserter (7) 38 Narrow container for feeding animals (6)
40 Standing by, available for duty (2,4)
41 Head’s bony outer casing (5)
43 Oklahoma city (5)
44 Does not have (5)
48 Point where two systems meet (9)
49 Spick and span (4)
50 Dislike (8)
52 All types of buying, selling and business (8)
53 More powerful (8) 54 Reclining seat (7)
55 Bring or come together (8)
57 Angry, enraged (5)
60 Metal beams on buildings or bridges (7)
61 North ___, Midwestern US state (6)
65 House‑letting contract (5)
66 Guy, bloke (4) 68 Multi‑seeded fruit (3)
69 Furrow made by wheels (3)