NAME GAME

HIDDEN in the grid is the name of a British actress. Answer the questions, then re-arrange the letters corresponding to your answers to fill in the name. Solution tomorrow.

BOX 1: Kate Winslet (pictured) had her first major role in which sci-fi TV series? The Girl From Tomorrow (C) Dark Season (L) Aquila (S) BOX 2: True Meanings is the title of the latest album by which singer? Paul Weller (I) Robbie Williams (P) Gilbert O’Sullivan (Y) BOX 3: Who married PR executive Kate Dwyer recently in Portugal? Jeff Brazier (S) Ben Shephard (W) Dan Walker (U) BOX 4: British actress Billie Whitelaw was noted for her work with which playwright? Arthur Miller (S) Samuel Beckett (H) Harold Pinter (V)

BOX 5: Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours is about three generations affected by which book? The Bell Jar (V) Mrs Dalloway (E) Little Women (L) BOX 6: David Bowie’s song TVC 15 was inspired by a drug-fuelled hallucination from which singer? Iggy Pop (S) John Lennon (A) Bob Dylan (Z) BOX 7: The play Everybody Comes To Rick’s was adapted into which film? To Have And Have Not (D)

The African Queen (B) Casablanca (A)

BOX 8: James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s constant companion is . . ? A raven (K) A Persian cat (L) A husky dog (O) BOX 9: In Buddhism, Hindu and Jain mythology, a Naga is a deity taking the form of what? A tiger (C) A bird (R) A snake (E)

Friday’s answer: ERIC IDLE (1E, 2C, 3L, 4I, 5I, 6R, 7E, 8D).