£1000 Big Name Crossword

Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking JODIE KIDD and IAN MCKELLEN, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.

ACROSS

1 Afternoon sleep (6)

4 London rapper behind the

recent hit Starlight (4)

7 Increases dramatically (5)

10 Alleviated (5)

14 Brighton Rock author, –

Greene (6)

15 Very fashionable (3,3,4)

16 Marine food fish (3,4)

17 Excursions (5)

18 Wager (3)

19 Baghdad’s country (4)

20 Department store section (8)

23 Stringent (8)

25 Former anaesthetic (5)

26 Parody (6)

28 Israeli monetary unit (6)

29 Muslim (7)

32 Army chaplains (6)

34 British TV presenter, –

Reid (7)

36 Astonished (6)

38 Echoing sound (abbr.) (6)

40 City in Yemen (4)

41 Brassed Off actor, –

Postlethwaite (4)

42 Rotates (5)

44 Comedy legend, – Laurel (4)

46 Reside (4)

47 Under Siege star, Steven – (6)

49 Squanders (6)

50 Slices of bacon (7)

52 Walk feebly (6)

53 Not one nor the other (7)

55 Proviso (6)

59 Sixth-form qualification (1-5)

60 Normal (5)

62 Ambitious enterprising

person (2-6)

65 Evaluator (8)

67 Donated (4)

68 Hatchet (3)

69 Streets (5)

71 Slanting letters (7)

73 Resolute (10)

74 Dark blue dye (6)

75 Shacks (5)

76 Jugs (5)

77 Has a meal (4)

78 Most recent (6)

DOWN

1 Unable to see (9)

2 Destroy completely (9)

3 Streetcars (5)

5 Distribute (5)

6 US jazz singer, – James (4)

7 Medicine man (6)

8 Affirmative vote (3)

9 Scheme (6)

10 Distinct period (3)

11 Vibrate (5)

12 Soldiers who run away (9)

13 Draw (6)

18 Paddington Bear’s creator,

Michael – (4)

21 Saturation (7)

22 Sicilian volcano (4)

24 Connection (3-2)

27 Moses follower (9)

30 Nation (5)

31 Make drunk (9)

33 Bundle of hay (4)

34 Pierces (5)

35 Run off hastily (9)

37 Insect (3)

39 Consecrate (5)

43 Be seated (3)

44 Lexicographer, – Dent (5)

45 Measure of land (4)

48 Timeless (7)

51 Satisfy thirst (5)

52 Histrionic behaviour (9)

54 Former Russian ruler (4)

56 Deport (9)

57 Solve by thorough

argument (6,3)

58 Bird associated with

peace (4)

61 Code word for S (6)

63 Chilled dessert (6)

64 Christmas theatre shows, in

short (6)

66 Use a razor (5)

68 Representative (5)

69 Scope (5)

70 Abominably wicked (4)

72 Gut condition (abbr.) (1,1,1)

73 Female deer (3)