£1000 Big Name Crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking MARGOT FONTEYN and CHUCK BERRY, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
ACROSS
1 Commonly recognised (8)
5 Main bullfighters (8)
10 Final points (7)
15 In abeyance (2,3)
16 Mounds of drifted sand (5)
17 Motives (7)
18 Capital city of Vietnam (5)
19 Plus (3)
20 Painkiller (9)
21 Military force (4)
22 Small swivelling wheel (6)
23 Plundered (6)
25 Go more quickly (4,2,2)
28 Grasslike plant (5)
30 Satellite paths (6)
31 Germinate (6)
34 Knead (7)
36 People related by marriage (2-4)
38 Rugby forward (4)
39 Sentinel (8)
42 Vitamin B3 (6)
44 Be festive (4,5)
46 Joker at a medieval court (6)
48 Mozart’s first name (8)
49 Solemn vow (4)
50 My – And Other Animals, TV series with Keeley Hawes (6)
53 Chic (7)
55 People who accept offers (6)
56 Gentle gust (6)
58 Send money (5)
60 Waste liquid disposal (8)
63 Euphoric (6)
67 Marine mammals (6)
68 Italian volcano (4)
70 Antiperspirant (9)
72 Underwear item (3)
74 Large lemur (5)
75 Former French monetary unit (7)
76 Measure (5)
77 Small rodents (5)
78 Attacking footballer (7)
79 Singer or poet (8)
80 Curved row of houses (8)
DOWN
1 Rain jackets (7)
2 Wept (5)
3 Rife (9)
4 Make beloved (6)
6 Aid (6)
7 Yellowish-orange shade (7)
8 Japanese city (5)
9 Winter figure (7)
10 – Daly, TV host (4)
11 Practises (9)
12 Set alight (7)
13 More frosty (5)
14 Comfortable and cosy (4)
24 Conspiracy (5)
26 Thrive (7)
27 Salad fruit (6)
29 Paradise (4)
30 Accustom or align (6)
32 Boundary around something (9)
33 Brownish-yellow (5)
35 Divided (5)
37 Faint smell (5)
40 Doglike mammal (5)
41 Knitted diamond design (6)
43 Intense pain (5)
44 Power (5)
45 Rugby term (5-2)
47 Rushed (6)
51 Non-reactive (5)
52 Former Russian ruler (4)
54 Extremely healthy (2,3,4)
57 Kin (9)
59 Flow windingly (7)
61 Adjusts or accustoms (7)
62 Small ingenious devices (7)
64 Absolutely (4,3)
65 Organ of taste (6)
66 Move swiftly along (6)
67 – and strays (5) 69 From China, say (5) 71 Egg cell (4)
72 Rounded protrusion (5) 73 Wound mark (4)