£1000 Big Name Crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking GILLIAN ANDERSON and KENNETH BRANAGH, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
ACROSS
1 Fire raisers (9) 6 Reserve for a special
purpose (3,5) 10 Meets and crosses (6) 15 Business associate (7) 16 Aloe plant (5)
17 African country (5) 18 Fencing swords (5)
19 Top secret US region, – 51 (4) 20 Strata (6)
21 Legal representative (8) 22 Award-winning actress, Laura
- (4) 25 Family member (6) 26 Cattle group (4) 28 Brazilian dance (5,4) 29 Is of the same opinion (6)
31 Prosecutes (4) 32 Line on a weather map connecting points of same temperature (8) 36 Distort (4) 37 Notorious seducer (8) 39 Practises boxing (5) 42 Accumulates over time (7) 44 Sailors (9) 46 Makes fast or firm (7) 48 Rising or falling sharply (5) 50 Continuous or flowing (8) 51 BBC newsreader, –
Munchetty (4) 53 Given back (8) 55 Countryfile presenter, –
Baker (4) 57 Cope with limited means (4,2) 59 Able to be hammered into
shape (9) 61 Hitch (4) 62 Singer, – Dion (6) 66 TV presenter, – Williams (4) 67 Drives backwards (8) 69 Wartime German prison (6) 70 EastEnders actor, – Wood (4) 74 Texan battle site (5) 75 Investment (5) 76 Wide open (5) 77 Colombian singer of Hips
Don’t Lie (7) 78 Regard (6) 79 Reappraise (8) 80 Wizards or magicians (9)
DOWN
1 First Greek letter (5) 2 Waiters (7) 3 Prohibited act
(informal) (2-2) 4 Shriek (6) 5 Traps (6) 6 Shuts forcefully (5)
7 Young adults (9) 8 Vision (5) 9 Forceful and bitter verbal
attack (8) 11 Declare (4) 12 Dock worker (9)
13 TV presenter, – Reid (7) 14 Safe places (6) 23 Young hares (8) 24 Port on the Loire (6) 25 Criticise severely (4) 27 Day when a birth is
expected (3,4) 30 Phrase differently (7) 33 Pews (5) 34 Handle incorrectly (6) 35 Sworn enemies (4) 38 Accumulate (5) 40 Cost of flight (7)
41 Former German ruler (6) 43 Lexicographer, – Dent (5) 44 Large water bird (4) 45 Listening attentively (3,4) 47 Parlour game (8) 49 Composer, Cole – (6) 52 Jest (4) 54 Distinguish between (4,5) 56 Interpret (9) 58 Romantic song (8) 59 Knead muscles (7) 60 Chicken portion (6) 63 Suppose (7) 64 Intense beams of light (6) 65 Julius –, Shakespeare
tragedy (6) 68 Prophets (5) 69 Durations (5)
71 Tests (5) 72 Burden (4) 73 Welsh borough, – of
Glamorgan (4)
Big Name Crossword solutions in next Saturday’s Daily Record