CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 1988 film starring Bruce Willis as

Officer John McClane (3,4) 6 Substance which elephants’ tusks

are composed of (5) 9 _ Witherspoon, US actress who

featured in Walk the Line (5) 10 Illegal alcohol smuggled into the

US during Prohibition (9) 11 David _, US talk show host (9) 12 Kirsten _, plays Peggy Blumquist

in TV’s Fargo (5) 13 Kevin _, US actor starring in

Central Intelligence (4) 15 Singer whose most recent hit is You Don’t Know Love (4,4) 17 Palace in Oxfordshire owned by the dukes of Marlborough (8) 18 US organisation which sent Neil Armstrong to the Moon in 1969 (4) 22 Turnip-like vegetable with a

purplish-yellow skin (5) 24 Singer who’s recorded the 2016

Olympics anthem ‘Rise’ (4,5) 26 _ and the Queens, French band who have released their debut album ‘Chaleur Humaine’ (9) 27 Peter_, singer and TV personality

(5) 28 Imperial unit of weight, equivalent

to 28 grams (5) 29 Ed _, singer/songwriter (7) DOWN 1 Jason _, US singer who recently released his Platinum Hits album (6) 2 Daughter of King Agamemnon in Greek mythology (7) 3 Tottenham-born multi-awardwinning singer (5) 4 US actress who starred opposite Patrick Swayze in Ghost (9) 5 _ Borg, Swedish tennis player and former World No.1 (5) 6 BBC TV drama series based on a multi-million pound heist (6,3) 7 Constellation named after a Greek hunter (5) 8 Fielding, TV presenter (6) 14 _ Williams, playwright who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (9) 16 2011 sci-fi thriller which starred Anna Friel and Bradley Cooper (9) 19 Tinchy _, Ghanaian-born English rapper (7) 20 Oscar-nominated Alfred Hitchcock film which starred Janet Leigh (6) 21 Mythological creature that resembles a dragon (6) 23 Zac _, US star of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (5) 24 _ Richards, Rolling Stones guitarist and vocalist (5) 25 Album released by Eurythmics in 1999 (5)