ANSWERS TO 26 APRIL PUZZLES

JUMBO PUZZLE ACROSS: 1 Complete 5 Offer 8 Science 15 Elves 16 Principal 17 Advance 18 America 19 Blocks 20 Sillier 23 Honest 25 Shattered 26 Speeds 29 Disappointed

30 Giant 31 Gain 34 Addresses 36 Cadger

37 Olive 40 Lumps 41 Heroes 43 Defending

47 Cane 48 Climb 49 Civilisation 53 Retain 54 Arguments 55 Editor 58 Nearest 59 Attend 60 Showers 64 Ceiling 65 Lipsticks 66 Earth 67 Intense 68 Sense 69 Invented

DOWN: 1 Crew 2 Movements 3 Loser 4 Topics 6 Facilities 7 Expected 9 Coarse 10 Envelope 11 Consideration 12 Sit 13 Glistening

14 Represented 21 Shade 22 Change 24 Suppress 27 Household 28 Energetic 32 Gap 33 Woodland 35 Demonstration 38 Electronics 39 Per 42 Remarkable 44 Exists 45 Hibernates 46 Angry 50 Interpret 51 Likewise 52 Multiple 56 Stages 57 Chosen 61 Where 62 Act 63 Thud

Answer: AGATHA CHRISTIE

CROSSWORD ACROSS: 7 Henna 8 Beautiful

10 Ignite 11 Allowing 12 Fast food 13 To-do

15 Shadows 17 Uniform 20 Melt 22 Up in arms 25 Shoulder 26 Pupils 27 Restraint 28 Plane DOWN: 1 Geography 2 Insisted 3 Veranda 4 Bulletin 5 Viewed 6 Runny 9 Veto

14 Crumbling 16 Withdraw 18 Flagpole

19 Purring 21 Erupts 23 I-Spy 24 Threw

Answer: FUNCTIONAL

LINKWORDS DESIGN, WORKER, DIVINE, FRENCH, COMMON, MASTER, ANIMAL, WATERS, MULLET, WIDOWS

Answer: UNDERSTAND

WORDWISE Inurn, nitrous, noun, nous, nuts, onus, ours, oust, outs, roust, rout, ruin, ruins, runs, runt, rust, ruts, snout, sour, stun, suit, suitor, torus, tour, turn, turns, union, unionist, unison, unit, unto

Answer: INTRUSION