Big name crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Eamonn Holmes and Carmen Electra, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
ACROSS
Portuguese —, stinging jellyfish (3-2-3) Loft (5)
Step —, film (8)
— Feltz, radio star (7) Telegraph cipher (5, 4) Philip —, Raymond Chandler’s detective (7) 18 Spanish holiday (6)
19 — Brown, politician (6) 22 Edible innards (5)
24 Hurry (4)
26 Candid (4)
28 Bay window (5)
30 — Phoenix, Harry Potter movie (5, 2, 3) Temperature scale (10) — pinscher, fairly large breed of dog (8)
41 Ceylon (3, 5)
45 Swiss mountain (5)
47 Norse god
of thunder (4)
48 Cream cake (6)
49 French impressionist painter famed for his ‘rainbow palette’ (6)
50 Bill of fare (4)
52 Revived from the past (5) 54 Tear down a building (8) 55 Path for pedestrians (8) 58 1942 Humphrey
Bogart movie (10)
60 Pride and Prejudice
author (4, 6)
63 Fertile desert spot (5) 65 — in the Blood,
Robson Green drama (4) 66 Fail to hit a target (4)
68 Florida resort (5)
70 River that rises in the
1
5 8 15 16 17 33 36
Black Forest and flows into the Black Sea (6) — Monkeys, Sheffield band whose hits include When the
Sun Goes Down (6)
80 Person giving sworn testimony (7) — Travels, Jonathan Swift classic (9)
82 Disorder (7)
83 Pirate’s booty (8)
84 — Don, TV gardener (5) 85 Snitch (8) 72 81
DOWN
Shift (4)
Oliver Twist character (5)
A — of Dollars, 1964 Clint Eastwood Western (7) Non-professional (7) Land measure (4) — Walcott, footballer (4) Long-haired dog of a Chinese breed (4) Muslim fast (7)
Canadian city (7)
Black wood (5)
Ranked player (4)
Leave out (4)
Jules Verne’s captain (4)
20 Game played on horseback (4)
— Murder, Caroline Quentin’s cop show (4) 23 Short-lived craze (3)
25 London district (4)
27 Jetty (4)
29 George Gershwin’s brother (3)
Uncommon (4)
1 2
3
4 5 6 7
9 10 11 12 13 14 21 31
— Annis, actress who featured in Cranford (9)
34 Stop (9)
35 Precious metal (4)
36 Obsolete (5)
37 Orlando —, actor (5)
38 Regular boat service (5) 39 Semiprecious stone (5) 40 Archer’s missile (5)
42 Female relative (5)
43 Grown up (5)
44 — Mendes, director (3) 46 — Widdecombe, former
Conservative MP (3)
51 Slovenly person (4)
53 S American country (4) 56 Mark left by a wound (4) 57 Indonesian island (4)
58 Wooden shoe (4)
59 Elite regiment (1,1,1)
61 — Maria, coffee
liqueur (3)
62 Carpenter’s
fastening device (4)
64 Sorrow (7)
65 Barbara —, actor (7)
67 Position (7)
68 — Le Vell, Corrie’s
Kevin Webster (7)
Liquid measure (5) Insects (4)
Corrode (4)
— Baron Cohen,
Ali G’s alter ego (5) Study intensely (4) Squalid overcrowded house (4)
— Williams, BBC newsreader (4)
Tax (4)
Kind (4)
32 69 71 73 74
75 76
77
78 79
Big Name Crossword solutions in next Saturday’s Irish Mirror