£1000 Big Name Crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Charlton Heston and Richard Attenborough, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
ACROSS
1 Radio host and voice of Rastamouse (5, 6) 8 Canadian-born male star of the movie
Blade Runner 2049 (4, 7) 14 Porcelain (5)
15 Female relation (4) 16 Someone who enjoys causing pain (6)
17 Outlaw, gunman (6)
18 Roasting spike (4)
19 Organ of thought (5)
20 Firmly founded (11)
22 Medical instrument (11)
25 Humorous drawing (7)
27 Academic
qualification (7)
30 Lariat (5)
31 Song’s text (5)
33 Insect’s feeler (7)
36 Worship (7)
38 Swimming style (5)
40 Provoke, stir up (6)
41 Run away (4)
43 Profound (4)
44 Stick with glue (6)
45 Usual weather conditions (7) 46 Exclude from school (5)
47 Jeans fabric (5)
48 Colloquial saying (5)
52 Praise highly (5)
53 Purplish red colour (7)
54 Crack, crevice (6)
55 Resist (4)
57 Maritime force (4)
59 Hot pepper (6)
60 Keyboard instrument (5)
61 Small pickled cucumber (7) 63 Tuneful (7)
65 Saltpetre (5)
67 Cook’s garment (5)
69 Middling (7)
71 Chewy toffee (7)
74 Traditionalist, conservative (11) 77 Require compulsorily (11)
80 Crinkly fabric (5)
81 Silicon slice (4)
82 Social ranking (6)
84 Make (6)
86 Against (4)
87 Attendant (5)
88 Scottish rock band best known for their single Don’t You (Forget About Me) (6, 5)
89 The band forever remembered for A Whiter Shade of Pale (6, 5)
DOWN
1 Magazine fan (6) 2 Science of heredity (8) 3 Support for a painting (5)
4 Tot up (3)
5 Occur next (5) 6 Abbreviate (7) 7 Bland (7)
9 Baking additive (5) 10 Gesture of assent (3) 11 Excel (5) 12 Inappropriate, unbecoming (8) 13 Rainwater channel (6) 21 Surplus (5) 23 Language of southern India (5)
24 Found by the sea (7)
26 Shade of colour (5)
28 Soup server (5)
29 Mixed smoothly (7)
30 Female presenter on Breakfast (6, 7) 32 London-born lead in the TV series Collateral (5, 8) 34 Weak, delicate (5)
35 Perspire (5)
37 Not easily convinced (9) 39 What Jack climbed
in the fairy tale (9)
42 Nation’s finances (7)
43 Jack Dee’s
comedy style (7)
49 Football team boss (7) 50 One more time (5)
51 Senseless (5)
52 Morally justified (7)
56 Monk (5)
58 Stadium’s centre (5)
62 Large crow (5)
64 Excessively
overweight (5)
66 Tough light metal (8)
68 Fee to secure a person’s services (8) 70 Fast train (7) 71 Section of a book (7)
72 Bulb flower (6)
73 Middle-sized (6)
75 Publish (5)
76 Set of drinks in a bar (5) 78 Slip, mistake (5)
79 Crab’s casing (5)
83 Muhammad —,
late boxing champion (3) 85 Curve (3)