Big name crossword

Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Halle Berry and Boy George, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.

ACROSS

29 Fifth note of a musical Scoring of three goals scale (3) by one footballer (3, 5) Excessively sentimental (4) — Villa, football club (5) Dreary round or routine — and Tobago, country (9) in the West Indies (8) 34 Small orange-like fruit (9) Autumn month (7) 35 — Sullivan, Corrie Retaliation (3, 3, 3) newsagent (4) Bullfighter (7) 36 Sorcery (5)

Cure (6) 37 Small simple dwelling (5) — con carne, spicy 38 Perhaps (5)

Mexican dish (6) 39 Gary Sinise’s crime

22 Kind of iris (5) drama (1,1,1,1,1)

24 Scottish lake (4) 40 Snake’s poison (5)

26 Needy (4) 42 Normal (5)

28 Enjoyment in doing a 43 Correspond (5)

thing (5) 44 Smack (3)

30 Enticement (10) 46 Mischievous child (3)

33 — Goes Large, BBC2’S 51 Bathroom powder (4)

culinary contest (10) 53 Hybrid fruit (4)

36 Oily food fish (8) 56 Solid fuel (4)

41 Educate (8) 57 U2 singer (4)

45 Church passageway (5) 58 Male domestic fowl (4) 47 Mongolian desert (4) 59 — Dhabi, sheikdom (3) 48 Space —, 1972 David 61 Consume (3)

Bowie album (6) 62 — Blair, former PM (4) 49 Digit (6) 64 Writing system for the 50 Large sea bird (4) blind (7)

52 Guitar-like stringed 65 Sensation of dizziness (7)

instrument (5) 67 Dairy product (7)

54 Marijuana (8) 68 Relating to the stars (7) 55 Ben—, Sexy Beast star 69 Backless sofa (5)

(8) 71 Napoleon’s first place of 58 — of the Exchequer, exile (4) cabinet minister Lively Scottish dance (4) responsible for finance (10)

Male relative (5)

60 — Hot, 1959 Marilyn

Monroe comedy (4, 4, 2) Wicked (4)

Small fragment of bread Marble —, London

(5) landmark (4)

— Smith, I, Robot star (4) 65 Small rodent (4) 77

Abel’s brother (4)

66 — Music, Bryan Ferry’s 78

band (4) 79 Looks at (4)

Big Name Crossword solutions in next Saturday’s Irish Mirror

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68 The devil (5)

70 Decided (6)

72 Strong outdoor shoe (6) 80 Italian composer known in his lifetime as ‘Il prete rosso’ (7)

81 Blockade (9)

82 Ill-fated (7)

83 Most famous of Arthur’s

knights (8)

84 — Mirren, Oscar-winning

star of The Queen (5) 85 Under — orders, ready or

eager to begin (8)

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Captain —, Peter Pan pirate (4)

Name of a book (5) Audrey —, Corrie crimper (7)

Chewy sweet (7)

Fifth book of the New Testament (4)

Norse god of thunder (4) Defence group (4) Person who takes walks in the country (7)

— Hill, 1999 Julia

Roberts Comedy (7) Father (5)

Unilluminated (4) Horse-breeding farm (4) America’s Mormon state (4)

20 Water-filled ditch

surrounding a castle (4) 21 Lupine animal (4)

23 Sailor’s tipple (3)

25 — mein, Chineseamerican dish (4)

The —, London cricket ground (4)

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