SUDOKU extra
Fill in the blank squares with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, each column and each 3 x 3 block contains all the numbers from 1 to 9.
SKILL LEVEL Easy
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
MEGA CROSSWORD
When completed, the shaded letters will reveal a well-known personality (see mystery clue below).
MYSTERY CLUE
16ac & 26ac
Comedian and TV presenter (3,9)
ACROSS
Fuss, commotion (7)Colourless, boring (4)Zero (6) Talks to God (5) Opponent (5) See Mystery Clue Large African mammal (abbrev) (5) Burial place (9) Without beginning or end (7) Type of offal (5) Crybaby (4) Large wine container (6) Horse’s neck hair (4) See Mystery Clue Gun holder (7)Refrain from noticing (6)Very thin (6) Pressing (6) Fertile soil (4) … Catton,novelist (7) Building material (6) Pitch a tent (4) Sharpened (5) Uncouth person, named after characters in Jonathan Swift’s (5) Increase in size (4) Muscle spasm (6)Shake (7) Leak (of a tap) (4) Stinging insect (6) Double-size wine bottle (6) Popular food fish (6) Bed chamber (7) Everlasting, recurrent (9) Reflected sound (4)Otago resort town and lake (6) Counterfeit (4) Perpendicular (5)Picture or statue of the Virgin Mary (7)Circus highwire (9)Mistake (5) Wildebeest (3) Speed (5) Word of greeting (5) Kim …., controversial internet figure (6) Location of the patella (4) Vacation (7)