£1000 Big Name Crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Art Garfunkel and Brendan Gleeson, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
ACROSS
1 Co-presenter with
Sue Perkins of the rebooted version of
The Generation Game (3, 8) 8 Scottish-born actress in original film version of The King and I (7, 4)
14 Female fox (5)
15 Step of a ladder (4)
16 Of stars (6)
17 Frozen Arctic plain (6)
18 House top (4)
19 Relay race stick (5)
20 Domineering (11)
22 Female athlete (11)
25 Beg, beseech (7)
27 Somerset cheese (7)
30 Printing machine (5)
31 Surrey racecourse (5)
33 Image (7)
36 Military order (7)
38 Answer (5)
40 Lasso (6)
41 Tofu bean (4)
43 Smell strongly (4)
44 Acid in lemons (6)
45 Salad leaf (7)
46 Open, frank (5)
47 Lizard with
sucker toes (5)
48 Parasite (5)
52 Invited person (5)
53 Quest (7)
54 Offensive implement? (6)
55 Sea-going force (4)
57 Percussion instrument (4) 59 Short in stature (6)
60 Turning machine (5)
61 Loquacious (7)
63 Nunnery (7)
65 Mournful song (5)
67 Fortunate (5)
69 Drifter, wanderer (7)
71 Shelter, shield (7)
74 Dinosaur with three horns (11) 77 In a covert way (11)
80 Dishonour (5)
81 Swearword (4)
82 Spending plan (6)
84 Rainwater channel (6)
86 Revise (4)
87 Computer accessory (5)
88 Former England footballer who won the Golden Boot in the 1986 World Cup tournament... (4, 7)
89 ...and the one who won the
Golden Boot in Euro 96 (4, 7)
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1 Looking glass (6) 2 Ladies’ underwear (8) 3 Thrill (5)
4 Groove or habit (3) 5 Have longings (5) 6 Marvellous event (7) 7 Tuneful (7) 9 Furnish (5) 10 Peculiar (3) 11 Hoard, accumulate (5)
12 Colossal (8)
13 Purify (6)
21 Send (payment) (5)
23 Empire, dominion (5) 24 Tarmac (7)
26 Delivery vehicle (5)
28 Male bee (5)
29 Marriage ceremony (7) 30 Celebrity chef and judge on The Great British Bake Off (4, 9) 32 BBC sports programme, first broadcast 55 years ago, that features
88 Across and
89 Across (5, 2, 3, 3) 34 Moor (5)
35 Nimbus
or cirrus, eg (5)
37 Sporadic (9)
39 Bear young (9)
42 Mediaeval
science (7)
43 Show a reaction (7)
49 Developed slowly (7) 50 Customary (5)
51 Pints in a gallon (5)
52 Chewy
bit of meat (7)
56 Eye shield (5)
58 Bird’s perch (5)
62 Explosion (5)
64 Clergyman (5)
66 Central heating
panel (8)
68 Chart of dates (8)
70 Tropical storm (7)
71 Pledge (7)
72 Muscular (6)
73 Gourmet
shellfish (6)
75 Jewish minister (5)
76 Fragment (5)
78 Worth the same (5)
79 Flashlight (5)
83 Owing (3)
85 Light brown
colour (3)