Big name crossword

Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Richard Ashcroft and Abraham Lincoln, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win €1000.

ACROSS

Level of heat measured in degrees (11)

Too small to be seen by the naked eye (11) Gambling card game (5) Shove (4)

Journey aboard a ship (6)

Vow (6)

Large white aquatic bird (4) Decoration on top of the Christmas tree (5)

20 Luckily (11)

22 French phrase describing something done with supreme skill or brilliance (4, 2, 5) Fleetingly (7)

Small pickled cucumber (7)

30 Latin ballroom dance (5) 31 Permit (5)

33 Down payment (7)

36 Wrench (7)

38 Black-and-white striped

African animal (5)

40 Almost (6)

41 Slow-cooked dish (4)

43 Lip, boundary (4)

44 Period of 60

seconds (6)

45 Arrangement of straps

used on a horse (7)

46 Performed in a

drama (5)

47 Bushy barrier (5)

48 Period of darkness (5) 52 Marine creature, a relative of the octopus (5)

Imaginary line around the centre of the Earth (7)

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54 Mark pricked and inked into the skin (6)

Male pig (4)

Measure of three feet (4)

59 Movie theatre (6)

60 Smallest unit of

British currency (5) Awful (7)

Beware! (4, 3)

Compass point (5)

In a while (5)

Fate (7)

But (7)

Intuitive sense of forewarning (11)

Art of beautiful handwriting (11)

80 Move by pushing (5)

81 Basin (4)

82 Ebb (6)

84 Yacht harbour (6)

86 Sunrise (4)

87 Pleased with oneself (5) 88 Basic, elementary (11) 89 Standing alone,

autonomous (11) 55 57 61 63 65 67 69 71 74

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Characterise (6)

Edible fungus (8)

Large black bird (5) Plaything (3)

Majestic (5)

Dedication, faithfulness (7) Common fish — sometimes red! (7) Eskimo’s ice shelter (5) Angler’s stick (3) Velvety leather (5) Mighty (8)

Call off (6)

Trunk of the body (5)

Rule as monarch (5) Walked with short, rolling steps — like a duck? (7)

26 Banish (5)

28 Fast (5)

29 Shiny lacquer (7)

30 Belief in multiple lives and a cycle of death and rebirth (13) Someone who relies on persuasion and skill to obtain what they want, not always honestly (7-6)

34 Tired (5)

35 Welcome (5)

37 Reprimand, tell off (9) 39 Four-legged animal (9) 42 Talk very quietly (7)

43 Wide area where a river

meets the sea (7)

49 Notion, idea (7)

50 Silent (5)

51 Bad smell (5)

52 Very good, holy (7)

56 Assign (5)

58 Unaccompanied (5)

62 Item of bedlinen (5)

64 Get down to pray (5)

66 Set free (8)

68 Pattern (8)

70 Fermented milk product (7)

Monstrous, atrocious (7) Creepy-crawly with eight legs (6)

73 Young swan (6)

75 Bravery, daring (5)

76 Command (5)

78 Once more (5)

79 Vine fruit (5)

83 Baby’s bed (3)

85 Frozen water (3)

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