Jumbo PUZZLE

Read down the letters in the shaded squares to spell out a British rock band (3,7,6).

ACROSS

9 Chafe (3)

13 Speech (7)

14 Evident (7)

15 Big cats (5)

16 Those people (4)

17 Give audible expression to (5)

18 Schemes (5)

19 Aquatic mammal (5) 21 Burrowing mammal (6)

22 Strict (6)

24 Coloured arc (7)

28 Type of fruit (5)

30 Chatter (12)

32 Be clothed in (4)

34 Most lengthy (7) 35 Grandmother, informally (7) 36 Bellies (7)

38 Digging for ore (6)

39 Sound of someone walking (9)

41 Sight (6)

44 Zeros (7)

45 As an alternative (7)

47 House in the country (7) 48 Tow (4)

49 Fabricator (12)

51 Articles (5)

54 Stress (7)

57 Smoothly (6)

58 Picks up on (6)

63 Porcelain (5)

64 Storey (5)

65 Lose blood (5)

66 Food grain (4)

68 Up to the time of (5)

69 Compel obedience to (7) 70 Swimming-pool distances (7)

71 Affirmative (3)

DOWN

1 Microorganisms (8)

2 Part of speech (6) 3 Sleeping place (3) 4 Edition (5)

5 Towards the Antarctic (8) 6 At any time (4)

7 Squashed (10)

8 Prose composition (5) 9 Moscow’s country (6) 10 Gusting (7)

11 Salad item (6)

12 Burnt remains (5)

20 The Victorians’ century (10)

23 Refined (7)

25 Sharp (5)

26 Tied (8)

27 Attendance (8) 29 Headland (9)

31 Porridge grains (4)

33 Get rid of (9)

34 Beyoncé’s 2016 album (8) 35 Magnificent (8)

37 Kept up (10)

40 Eg, The Old Vic (7) 42 Continent (4)

43 Group of 20 (5) 46 Earth-orbiting vehicle (10) 50 Alleviated (8) 52 Uncertainty (8) 53 Commonly (7) 55 Is alive (6) 56 Volunteers (6) 59 Tutus (6) 60 Happen (5)

61 Fluid made by bees (5)

62 Strangely (5) 65 Char (4) 67 In addition to (3)

✢ The answers for 22 February are on the horoscopes page.

The answers to this week’s puzzles will appear in two issues’ time.