£1000 Big Name Crossword

Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking TOM HANKS and GEORGE CLOONEY, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.

ACROSS

1 1998 film, Fear and – in Las

Vegas (8) 5 Bond film producer,

‘Cubby’ – (8) 10 English rock band, Black – (7) 15 Woody shrub (5) 16 One who steals (5)

17 Pull out (7) 18 Ancient British tribe (5)

19 Shade of brown (3) 20 Not symmetrical (9)

21 Buzz (4) 22 Equal terms (6) 23 Make warm again (6) 25 Slackened (8) 28 Peruses writing (5) 30 Protective headwear (6)

31 Earth, say (6) 34 Highest lottery prize (7) 36 Place in NW England (6) 38 Anyone For You singer,

George – (4) 39 Dutch liqueur (8) 42 Raid (6) 44 Keyboard key (9) 46 Swapped goods (6) 48 Write messily (8) 49 Whip (4) 50 Boarder (6) 53 Diffidence (7) 55 Aspiring (6) 56 Slices meat (6) 58 Spanish man (5) 60 Lent lily (8) 63 Decline And Fall

writer, – Waugh (6) 67 Read out loud (6) 68 Harvest (4) 70 Money manager (9) 72 Variety of lettuce (3) 74 Long rope (5) 75 Guacamole ingredient (7) 76 Pub drinks measure (5) 77 Mindless (5) 78 Great fame (7) 79 Act of kindness (4,4) 80 Escorting (8)

DOWN

1 Edible sea crustacean (7) 2 Resembling bees (5) 3 State museum in Saint

Petersburg (9) 4 Essential character (6) 6 Lottery (6)

7 Farewell greeting (7) 8 Being pulled by another

vehicle (2,3) 9 European language (7) 10 Family Guy

creator, – MacFarlane (4) 11 Miscellaneous small

objects (4-1-4) 12 Superstore

actress, – Ferrera (7) 13 Hirsute (5) 14 TV comedy series,

Green – (4) 24 Meat produced in accordance with Muslim law (5) 26 US-Mexican

guitarist, Carlos – (7) 27 Familiar feeling (4,2) 29 Groups (4) 30 Pride or arrogance (6) 32 Revolving tray (4,5) 33 Taunt (5) 35 Tartan cloth (5) 37 Middle Eastern

nationality (5) 40 Rare or unusual

object (5) 41 Embellishes (6) 43 Sprinted (5) 44 Large tree (5) 45 West Indian ballad (7) 47 Followed orders (6)

51 Auctioneer’s hammer (5) 52 Small demons (4) 54 Shakespeare’s

birthplace (9) 57 Promote for sale (9) 59 Cypriot capital (7)

61 Length unit (7) 62 Ahead (2,5) 64 Money saved,

informally (4,3) 65 Within a building (6) 66 Female relatives (6) 67 Baps (5) 69 Greek philosopher (5)

71 Brief letter (4) 72 American mammal (5) 73 Hand part (4)