£1000 Big Name Crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Dan Stevens and Ralph Fiennes, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
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1 Illustrate (6) 1 Insect type (9) 4 Puritan (4) 2 By degrees (9)
7 Gets beaten (5) 3 Dracula’s title (5) 10 Nursing home attendant (5)
5 European river (5) 14 Wide road (6)
6 Animal linked to 15 Range of words (10) Capricorn (4) 16 Energetic (7)
7 Children’s book, 17 Former track athlete, – in Pyjamas (6) Steve - (5)
8 Sylvester Stallone’s 18 Stain (3) nickname (3) 19 Provoke (4)
9 Family cars (6) 20 2002 Al Pacino film (8)
10 Nicolas Cage film, – Air (3) 23 First-year university
students (8) 11 Radio host, – Kemp (5) 25 Scorches (5) 12 Retrieved or recovered (9) 26 Regular beat (6) 13 Dystopian novel, 28 Screamed (6) The – Games (6) 29 Burst out laughing (5,2) 18 Jurassic Park actress,
Laura - (4) 32 Blemished or imperfect (6) 34 Swarming insects (7) 21 Shakespeare play (7) 36 Enter as an enemy (6) 22 Elegant (4) 38 Online company 24 Stilettos (5)
(informal) (3,3) 27 Civic messenger, 40 US singer, – Lovato (4) historically (4,5)
41 Supremes singer, Diana - (4) 30 City in France (5) 42 Italian composer (5) 31 Insufficiently cooked (9) 44 Former rugby player, 33 Scandinavian capital (4) – Tindall (4)
34 Windowsill (5) 46 Brass component (4)
35 Ready to fight or argue (9) 47 Tooth coating (6)
37 Bob Hope’s wife in 49 Talk together (6)
Emmerdale (3) 50 Run-down area
(informal) (4,3) 39 Large parrot (5) 52 Stage musical, Miss - (6) 43 In vitro fertilisation (abbr.) (3) 53 Consistently fine 44 Singer, – Pellow (5)
weather (3,4) 45 1986 Prince hit (4) 55 Nicola Benedetti’s 48 Airline seating class (7) instrument (6)
51 More frosty (5) 59 Fridge compartment (6)
52 Keyboard buttons (5,4) 60 Cloth fragment (5) 62 Thaws out (8) 54 Unwanted body fat (4) 65 1950s unruly youth (5,3) 56 Final tipping point (4,5) 67 Dialect word for a turnip (4) 57 Unpleasantness, spite (9) 68 Don McLean song, 58 Venerable -, saint (4)
American - (3) 61 Antics (6) 69 Valentino -, former MotoGP
63 Compels (6) World Champion (5)
64 Raise the temperature (4,2) 71 Unpredictable (7)
66 Challenged (5) 73 Star Trek starship (10) 74 Disinclined to (6) 68 Difficult question (5) 75 Chose a faction (5) 69 Mars motor vehicle (5) 76 Sink or fall heavily (5) 70 Crustacean (4) 77 Farm building (4) 72 Fargo actor, – Danson (3) 78 Noisy fights (6) 73 Rod Hull’s puppet (3) Big Name Crossword solutions in next Saturday’s Daily Record