CELEB CROSSWORD
Solve the crossword in the usual way. When complete, the letters in the ringed squares, reading from top to bottom, will answer the question below about our featured celebrity, actor Paul Nicholas.
QUESTION: Eighties singing and sitcom heartthrob Paul Nicholas returned to our screens in 2015. As Kathy Beale’s estranged husband, the Just Good Friends charmer was touted as an Eastenders villain like no other before! Bizarrely, Paul got an early showbiz break playing a victim of notorious East End ogre Jack the Ripper! Whose eccentric stage act was he involved in?
1 Asian spice, star — (5)
2 Standard (4)
3 DCI Banks actor,
— Tompkinson (7)
4 Study of speech sounds (9)
5 Sound of a braying donkey (6)
6 Familiar tag that your
mates might give you (8)
7 Tart tropical fruit used in Asian cookery and Worcestershire sauce (8)
8 Eye tooth (6)
9 Ice-cream serving spoon (5)
10 Set of clothes — theatrical ones,
perhaps? (7)
11 Portent (4)
12 Command (5)
13 Greeting (9)
14 Valuable possession (5)
15 Ancient Greek city (6)
16 Shortage (6)
17 Army padre (8)
18 Second-place contestant (6-2)
19 Wine storage room (6)
20 Metal with the symbol Ag (6)
21 Alpine rescue dog, St — (7)
22 In the midst of, with (5)
23 Poisonous element (7)
24 Strong dislike (9)
25 Edible pea pod (9)
26 Fruit resembling a banana (8)
27 Kind of power plant,
or family (7)
28 Glue (8)
29 Refuge from a storm (7)
30 Green vegetable (8)
31 Nocturnal bird (3)
32 Branch of maths dealing
with lines and shapes (8)
33 Unit of electrical resistance (3)
34 Flowering shrub related to the
tea plant (8)
35 Dessert course (6)
36 Passata ingredients (8)
37 Mass departure (6)
38 Five-armed sea creature (8)
39 Unseasonably warm autumn period,
— summer (6)
40 Competitor expected to lose (8)
41 Actress, Minnie — (6)
42 ABBA’S Eurovision winner (8)
43 Recent arrival (8)
44 Swaggering show of courage (7)
45 Trace (7)
46 Bet (5)
47 Discover or learn (4,3)
48 Unit of loudness (7)
49 Roy —, original presenter of TV’S
Record Breakers (6)
50 Fluorescent Adolescent group,
— Monkeys (6)
51 Daring adventure (8)
52 A country’s money (8)
53 Male whale (4)
54 — Ness, home of
a legendary monster (4)
55 Short jacket, sometimes part of a
uniform (5)
56 Deadlock (9)
57 Monastic head (5)
58 Navy (5)
59 Government by election (9)
60 Hawaiian greeting (5)