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It’s a star or it’s a war - it’s not both! Solve the clues and find the answers in the grid. Answers below.

1 Who played real-life entertainer Gertrude Lawrence in the 1968 biopic Star!? (5,7)

2 The Hundred Years’ War was fought between England and which European country? (6)

3 Starbuck is a leading character in which 1851 classic sea-faring novel? (4-4) 4

Actor Jack Warner played which policeman on TV from 1955 to 1976? (6,5)

5 What is the name of the star system closest to Earth? (5,8)

6 Who wrote the Russian literary classic War and Peace? (3,7)

7 The character Monroe Stahr, said to be modelled on MGM producer Irving Thalberg, was the main protagonist of which novel by F Scott Fitzgerald? (3,4,6)

8 What is the first name of the character Mrs Warboys, as played by Doreen Mantle in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave? (4)

9 Who had a 1972 UK hit with the single Starman? (5,5)

10 Who played the real-life Texas congressman whose story was dramatised in the 2007 drama movie Charlie Wilson’s War? (3,5)