Big name crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking
Belinda Carlisle and Abraham Lincoln, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win €1000.
ACROSS
and 47 Across Former Noel Edmonds game show (4, 2, 2, 4)
Chubby (5)
Jewish festival celebrated in spring (8) Strange, like an 84A (7) Republic in SE Asia (9) Meet the —, Ben Stiller comedy (7) — Silverstone, actor (6) Robert —, Ben Stiller’s 17A co-star (2, 4)
22 — Agassi, retired US
tennis star (5)
24 Abominable snowman (4) Cheese-making by-product (4)
28 Run away to marry (5) 30 Fans (10)
33 Denzel —, Fences star (10)
Feeble person (8) — Nightingale, Crimean War nurse (8)
45 Synagogue leader (5) 47 See 1 Across
48 Watch out! (6)
49 Peter —, England and
Liverpool striker (6)
50 German ‘Mr’ (4)
52 Stout length of sawn
timber (5)
54 Art of speaking
impressively (8)
55 Coal mine (8)
58 Cheese made from
buffalo milk (10)
60 Medieval instrument of
torture (4, 6)
63 Military jacket (5)
65 Phone message (4)
66 Failure (4)
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68 — Mirren, The Queen star (5)
Male teacher (6)
Place name derived from the name of a real or mythical person (6) 80 Tidal wave (7)
81 Liveliness (9)
82 Eight-sided shape (7) 83 Equestrian event
discipline (8)
84 Sleeper’s vision (5)
85 Without discomfort (8) 70 72
DOWN
Nightfall (4)
Spring month (5) Perform surgery (7) Cancel (7)
US singer whose hits include Stupid Girls (4) America’s Mormon state (4)
Destitute (4)
Increase in size (7) A Christmas Carol miser (7)
Second planet of the solar system (5) Jonathan —, chat show host (4) — spumante, sparkling Italian wine (4)
14 Unit of heredity (4)
20 — Christian Andersen,
fairy tale writer (4)
21 Nasty (4)
23 Short swim (3)
25 Division of the school
year (4)
27 Warmth (4)
29 Not at home (3)
31 Paris airport (4)
32 Orange-like fruit (9) 34 Old British coin (4-5)
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Tyrannical Roman emperor (4)
Broader (5) Semiprecious stone (5)
38 French pancake (5)
39 German submarine of the Second
World War (1-4)
40 — Gervais, Extras star (5) 42 Female relative (5)
43 Too soon (5)
44 Chart (3)
46 Commit burglary (3)
51 — Lisa Smile, Julia Roberts movie (4) Jessica —, Fantastic
Four star (4)
56 Move (a muscle) (4)
57 Spoken exam (4)
58 — Hari, First World
War spy (4)
Japanese Buddhism (3) — Boy, Only Fools and Horses market trader (3)
62 Number of cats’
lives (4)
64 Direction finder (7)
65 Taxing (7)
67 First woman of Greek
myth (7)
68 — Court, palace on the Thames built by Cardinal Wolsey (7) Entertain (5)
— Mcgregor, actor (4) Small horse (4)
Bird of prey (5)
— poker, card game (4) — Piper, Hamelin’s rat-catcher (4)
Salary (4)
Movie (4)
Burden (4)
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