£1000 Big Name Crossword

Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking MILEY CYRUS and SHAUN RYDER, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.

ACROSS

1 Short-lived ‘90s TV soap (8) 5 Indispensable item (9) 10 Abstract art style (6) 16 Timepiece (5)

17 More unpleasant (7) 18 Indian monetary unit (5) 19 Hogwarts professor,

Remus - (5) 20 Sediment (4)

21 Finally (2,4) 22 Loaf container (5,3)

23 US actress, Elisabeth - (4) 26 Film with Cate Blanchett,

- on a Scandal (5) 28 Gloss, lustre (5) 29 Slightly windy (6)

33 Scalp covering (4) 34 Harvests (5)

35 Type of tree (6) 39 Mouse-like rodent (4) 40 Whinny (5) 42 Chaperone (9) 45 Ancient stringed

instrument (4) 47 Corkscrew pasta (7) 48 Libyan capital (7) 49 Cable-free internet (2-2) 52 Study of finance (9)

53 Wading bird (5) 54 Animated series,

- the Explorer (4) 57 TV presenter, - McCall (6) 59 ‘The Woman’ in Sherlock,

- Adler (5) 60 Long-distance runner, Zátopek (4) 64 Stationary (6) 65 1990s dance-pop group (5) 66 Flat race, - Derby (5) 70 European river (4) 71 Barack Obama’s

birthplace (8) 72 Postpone (3,3) 75 Skin complaint (4) 79 Largest of the lemurs (5) 80 High-status group (5) 81 E.g., Stromboli or

Krakatoa (7) 82 Mushrooms and moulds (5) 83 Rice or sand particles (6) 84 Spirit of the time (9) 85 Blondie album, - Lines (8)

DOWN

1 Edible (8) 2 Male bee (5) 3 The national drink

of Turkey (4) 4 Fargo actress, Kirsten - (5) 6 Is alive (6)

7 Remove clothing (6) 8 Shrieks (9)

9 Lukewarm quality (9) 11 Unsightly (4) 12 Unseemly (8) 13 Visual memory or

imagination (5,3) 14 A continent (4)

15 TV cook, - Smith (5) 24 Former Russian rulers (5) 25 Former Greek coin (7) 27 Drag along the ground (5) 30 Sugar particles (8)

31 Nun’s costume (5) 32 Bram Stoker’s vampire (7) 36 Developed (7) 37 Indian composer,

- Shankar (4) 38 True to type (7)

41 Toughened by experience (8) 42 Mountain range (4) 43 North African country (7) 44 Drinks delicately (4) 46 Norse god of thunder (4) 50 Bucharest’s country (7)

51 Frogman (5) 55 Leaves out (5) 56 Hat (5) 58 Sanction (9) 59 Rash (9)

61 Escorting (8) 62 Country which borders

Vietnam (8) 63 Relating to an empire (8) 67 TV host, Alex - (5) 68 Actor, informally (6) 69 Sloshes over (6) 73 Salver (4) 74 Plants of a region (5) 76 Waterway (5) 77 New Zealand singer,

Neil - (4) 78 King of Mercia (4)