€1000 Big name crossword

Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Kevin Whateley and Todd Carty, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win €1000.

ACROSS

1 Receptacle for storing solid fuel for the fire (4, 7) 8 Optician (11)

14 Malice (5)

15 Number of lives a cat is said to have (4) 16 Overcome, swallow up (6) 17 Squabble (6)

18 Movie (4)

19 Tally (5)

20 Dogged determination (11)

22 Type of embroidery (11) 25 Stir up (7)

27 Stonework (7)

30 Swelling, protuberance (5) 31 Occurrence, happening (5)

33 Whiskey (7)

36 Spire (7)

38 Transparent (5)

40 Grasp (6)

41 Chilly (4)

43 Stuck-up person (4) 44 Fable, old story (6) 45 Instance, case in point (7)

46 Furious (5)

47 Frogman (5)

48 Canal boat (5) 52 Squander (5) 53 Monarch’s ceremonial staff (7)

54 Formula for making a dish (6)

55 Pimple, zit (4)

57 Silly (4)

59 Semi-aquatic mammal known for building dams (6) 60 Candid (5)

61 Storm (7)

63 Gift (7)

65 Blood-sucking worm (5) 67 Sensational and shocking (5)

69 Absent (7)

71 Fishing boat (7)

74 Bill Haley’s kind of music (4,3, 4) 77 Computer programme used for organising data (11)

80 Lure, entice (5)

81 Section of a fitted kitchen (4)

82 This is said to be in the eye of the beholder (6) 84 Flowery (6)

86 Extensive (4)

87 Fire (5)

88 Date or event observed every 12 months (11) 89 Dessert of ice cream covered in hot meringue (5, 6)

DOWN

1 Cocktail snack (6) 2 Unusual (8)

3 Spicy salad ingredient used as a garnish (5) 4 Pull (3)

5 Shrub with purple scented flowers (5) 6 Phantom (7)

7 Fame, celebrity (7) 9 Group of lions (5) 10 Acorn tree (3)

11 Spooky (5)

12 Start, kick off (8)

13 Red salad fruit (6) 21 Keen (5)

23 Slow, sad song (5) 24 Disastrous failure (7) 26 Internet pest (5) 28 Frequently (5)

29 Saturday and Sunday (7) 30 Container for your digestives and custard creams (7, 6) 32 Kind and sentimental (6-7)

34 Drift on the surface (5) 35 Content (5)

37 Mankind (5, 4) 39 All-encompassing, omnipresent (9)

42 Tooth specialist (7)

43 Type of plant that grows in the ocean (7) 49 Understanding, compassion (7) 50 Passenger boat (5) 51 Wasp’s weapon (5) 52 Grapple, tussle (7) 56 Fertile area in the desert (5)

58 Archer’s missile (5) 62 Previous, earlier (5)

64 Sift (5)

66 Ballot (8)

68 Starving hungry (8) 70 Small graceful antelope (7)

71 Acrobat’s swinging bar (7) 72 Distressing, shocking ordeal (6)

73 Social disgrace (6) 75 Aristocratic (5)

76 In a while (5)

78 Hopping dance (5) 79 V-shaped river mouth (5) 83 Donkey (3)

85 Grain used for whiskey and a bread (3)