The Biggie
Phwoar – it’s a whopper! Enjoy your puzzling
What links legendary rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Jimi Hendrix and model and star of Wonder Woman Gal Gadot? To find out, solve the crossword then read down the shaded squares to find the four-word prize answer.
ACROSS
1 Yellow food spice (7) 5 Assign work to employees (8) 9 Number in a quartet (4) 13 Facts confirming a story (5) 14 Card-game that’s like rummy (7) 15 Dilemma (7) 16 Indian or Arctic perhaps (5) 17 Honeymooner (5) 18 Not often (6) 20 Narrow to a point (5) 21 Rice dish (7) 23 Gateau (4) 26 Building land (4) 27 Abraham …, American president (7) 30 Copy (7) 34 The …, BBC Radio 4 soap (7) 36 Highest number on bingo card (6) 37 Frolicsome dance (5) 39 Eye glasses (10) 40 Where Clark Kent lives (10) 42 Drug obtained from poppies (5) 43 Twine (6) 44 Thickener used in food preparation (7) 46 Painting template (7) 47 Mechanical device (7) 48 Sixty minutes (4) 53 Protein-rich bean (4) 54 Display cupboard (7) 55 Privet barrier (5) 58 Elongated cream cake (6) 60 Dangerous exploit often performed by a double (5) 62 Nautical map (5) 66 Wound dressing (7) 67 Hug (7) 68 Crowd scene actor (5) 69 Bounced sound (4) 70 Male relatives (8) 71 Repaint a car (7)
DOWN
1 Prop up, back (7) 2 Container for a house plant (9) 3 Petrol-making plant (8) 4 Riviera resort (4) 5 Hill of sand (4) 6 Amplified beam of light (5) 7 Canine for security (5, 3) 8 Adhesive strip (4) 10 Greased, lubricated (5) 11 Bring to mind (8) 12 A, E, I, O or U (5) 19 Tread heavily (5) 22 Dot in the blue on a map (6) 24 Computer to control an aircraft (9) 25 Lay up in quantities for later use (9) 26 Quickly-taken photo (8) 28 Ant, fly or earwig for example (6) 29 Musical piece for orchestra and soloist (8) 31 Evidence given in court (9) 32 Power, might (8) 33 One being held in jail (8) 35 School subject taught in a lab (9) 38 Fire-breathing creature (6) 41 Buccaneer (6) 45 Shade of purple (5) 49 Great painter of former times (3, 6) 50 Gather in one place (8) 51 Medicinal lotion (8) 52 Domestic fowl (8) 56 Tidal part of a river (7) 57 Clergyman (5) 59 Noon meal (5) 61 Of high birth (5) 63 Cogged wheel in a box (4) 64 Route between two mountains (4) 65 Pull something apart (4)