best Puzzles

Use the anagrams, straight, cryptic, quiz and picture clues to solve the crossword. When completed correctly, the pink squares, reading top to bottom, left to right, will reveal the answer to the question below:

What does PICTURE C call her fanbase? (7). This is your prize answer. Enter by using the numbers at the top of the grid or at hearstmagazines.co.uk/bestcross1421

ACROSS

3 All set, prepared (5) 6 ANAGRAM SOBEE 7 Woodwind instrument (4) 8 PICTURE A Name this Duck (5) 10 Joaquin Phoenix won his Best Actor Oscar last year for his role as the title character in what film? (5) 11 ANAGRAM TOBIR 12 What is the name for a nine-sided shape? (7) 14 DR MAE turned out to be a figment of my imagination! (5) 17 Group of bees (5) 20 Birds of a ___ flock together, adage (7) 23 Underground drain (5) 24 What is the body’s main artery called? (5) 25 Pearly ___, Heavenly entrance (5) 26 Hockey on horseback? (4) 27 You could cut the atmosphere with a ___, expression (5) 28 Jewelled headdress (5)

DOWN

1 PICTURE B Who is this? (3,5) 2 Gesture (to come over) (6) 3 Like a ___ to a bull, saying (3,3) 4 Went up and down (of weight, eg) (2-4) 5 See 19D 9 Which German city has a seasoned smoked sausage named after it? (9) 13 Broadcast, televise (3) 15 Rodent discovery is quite the ART form! (3) 16 & 18D Which Canadian author wrote The Handmaid’s Tale and its followup The Testaments, a Booker Prize winner? (8,6) 18 See 16D 19 & 5D PICTURE C Name this Aussie actress (6,6) 21 What is the largest of the US states? (6) 22 Actors Ed, Neil Patrick or Naomie (6)