£1000 Big Name Crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking MICHAEL PALIN and WILLIAM SHATNER, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
ACROSS
1 Transportive from the here
and now (8)
5 Drilled a hole (5)
8 Generally (2,1,5)
15 Caribbean nation (2,5)
16 Holds as sacred (9)
17 Irregular (7)
18 Autocrat (6)
19 Cricket term (3,3)
22 Shaving implement (5)
24 Units of electrical current (4) 26 Amend text (4)
28 Style of interior
furnishings (5)
30 Commonly referred to (10) 33 Typical presentation (5,5)
36 Mandibles (8)
41 Block of flats (8)
45 Hours after sunset (5)
47 Venetian chief magistrate (4) 48 Capital of North
Macedonia (6)
49 Ceremonial chair (6)
50 Fall in drops (4)
52 Old magistrate (5)
54 Sound of a bell (4-4)
55 Became ill again (8)
58 Small decorative gifts (5,5) 60 Dachshund, informally (7,3) 63 Desert haven (5)
65 Well ventilated (4)
66 Closing passage (4)
68 Anne Brontë novel, – Grey (5) 70 Small branches (6)
72 Beside (4,2)
80 Former UK prime
minister, – May (7)
81 Sergei –, Russian
composer (9)
82 Tacking with metal
fasteners (7)
83 Visual imagination (5,3)
84 Judges or considers (5)
85 Singer or poet (8)
DOWN
1 Irish Gaelic (4)
2 Musical instrument (5)
3 Mounted bullfighter (7)
4 City in South Wales (7)
5 A party, informally (4)
6 Uncommon (4)
7 Scandinavian (4)
9 Search for and find (4,3)
10 Woollen fabric (7)
11 Frequently (5)
12 Engrave (4)
13 Finding –, 2003
animation (4)
14 Norway’s capital (4)
20 Rugby forward (4)
21 Faithful (4)
23 Exhibition of wild animals (3) 25 Orchard fruit (4)
27 Arabian sailing vessel (4)
29 Shy (3)
31 Senses of self (4)
32 Suddenly begin (5,4)
34 Inflexibility (9)
35 Observed (4)
36 Exhausted (5)
37 Town in Northern
England (5)
38 Unreactive (5)
39 Eyed up (5)
40 Aquatic mammal (5)
42 Noblemen (5)
43 Lukewarm (5)
44 Mobile computer
program (3)
46 Stray (3)
51 In a lazy manner (4)
53 Sudden pain (4)
56 Polish waterway (4)
57 West Ireland county (4)
58 Amphibian (4)
59 UK medical care system (1,1,1) 61 Lair (3)
62 Secondary school
qualification (inits)
64 Methods (7)
65 Previously (7)
67 US actor, – Banderas (7)
68 Devoted (7)
69 Dined at home (3,2)
71 Stare open-mouthed (4)
73 Covetousness (4)
74 Sharp end (5)
75 Stalk (4)
76 Virtuous (4)
77 Painful (4)
78 Is victorious (4)
79 – Sikorsky, US-Russian
aviation engineer (4)