Jumbo PUZZLE

Read down the letters in the shaded squares to spell out a fictional detective (8,6).

ACROSS

1 Archers’ weapons (6)

4 Merest (9)

9 Thespian’s profession (6) 15 Decreases (5)

16 Sure (7)

17 Mistake (5)

18 Animal doctor (3)

19 Gnaw food (4)

20 Home (9)

21 Stylus (6)

24 Appreciation (11)

26 Towards a river mouth (10) 29 Tell or narrate (6)

31 Novelist (6)

32 Glossy (5)

33 Label (3)

35 Profound thinker (11) 36 Observers (10)

40 Oversees (10)

42 Suitable (11)

44 Dined (3)

45 Hearth blazes (5)

47 Failed to remember (6) 48 Touches lips (6)

50 Sleeps over winter (10) 52 Amused (11)

56 US state (6)

57 Backpacker (9)

59 Old wound mark (4)

62 Type of wood (3)

63 Archery target ring (5)

64 Part of the day (7) 65 Squander (5)

66 Being defeated (6)

67 Benefit (9)

68 Made to laugh (6)

DOWN

1 Influence (6) 2 Alleviate (7)

3 Desire (4)

5 House of __, government chamber (5)

6 Relation (11)

7 Musical fork (6)

8 Bony structures (9)

10 Precisely (9)

11 Entail (7)

12 Movable barrier (4) 13 Getting goals (7)

14 Diction (13)

22 Delay (8)

23 Mental picture (5)

25 Makes contact (7)

27 Snares (5)

28 __ and Crafts, 19th-century design movement (4) 30 Relaxation time (7)

33 Strands (7)

34 Talks (13)

37 Burst (7)

38 Marvellous (8)

39 Thick (5)

41 Strongbox (4)

42 Organisation (11)

43 School subject (5) 45 Squadron’s flying pattern (9) 46 Protected (9)

49 Warehouse space (7)

51 Bondi and Copacabana, for example (7)

53 Condones (7)

54 Photographic device (6)

55 Mate (6)

58 Fibbing (5)

60 Send by post (4)

61 Move in water (4)