€500 Star search

For your chance to win €500 fill in the crossword and the shaded squares will spell out the name of a celebrity — this is your prize answer. Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

ACROSS

1 Blood-sucking animal (7, 3) 5 Boast (4) 9 Five-sided building of the US Department of Defense (8) 10 Dessert of sponge, custard and cream (6) 12 Prepared, on standby (5) 13 Longing (8) 15 Ruin, crash (5) 17 Bird found in a pear tree at Christmas! (9) 18 Large church (9) 20 Fret (5) 22 Musical featuring Christ as a clown (8) 24 Grieve (5) 27 Scold, tell off (6) 28 Normal, average (8) 29 Profound (4) 30 Feature of Camelot (5, 5)

DOWN

1 Venomous snake (5) 2 Dull, ordinary (7) 3 Mussolini’s country (5) 4 Dark wood (5) 6 Cultured, elegant (7) 7 Battleship colour? (4) 8 Best seats in a theatre? (5, 3) 11 — and Hardy, comedy duo (6) 14 Depend (4) 15 Candle string (4) 16 Memento (8) 17 Package (6) 19 Mischief (7) 21 Plant with long pink stalks used for puddings (7) 23 Classical language (5) 24 French artist who painted waterlilies (5) 25 Push with the elbow (5) 26 Poke (4)