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ACROSS
1 Robert –––, actor who played Reverend
Preston Teagardin in 2020 film drama
The Devil All the Time (9)
6 Scarlett –––, actress who married comedian
Colin Jost in October (9)
11 and 68 Actor who played Dave in the 2020 Prime Video comedy series Truth Seekers (5,4)
14 Chris –––, West Indies cricketer who in October became the first man to hit 1,000 sixes in T20 (5) 15 English singer-songwriter set to replace
Meghan Trainor as a coach in Series 10 of
The Voice UK (4-5)
16 Actress who played Samantha O’Hara in The Nest (4,5)
17 Laugh (7)
18 Fourth-largest, by surface area, of the five
Great Lakes of North America (4)
19 See 48 Across
20 Dan –––, actor who played Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit (7)
22 Jilted (8)
24 1976 film comedy featuring Richard Pryor as Daddy Rich (3,4)
26 Short comedy scenes or vignettes (8)
31 Jonathan –––, Best Actor in a Leading Role
Oscar nominee for The Two Popes (5)
32 UEFA Euro 2020 Group E nation (5)
33 Asian country also called Myanmar (5)
34 England 2005 Ashes series batsman who announced his retirement in 2020 (3,4)
36 2020-21 Bundesliga and UEFA Europa
League group stage C club (10)
38 Dance music act who released the 2020 studio album All Blessed (Picture A) (9)
39 Title of former leaders of the Persian Empire (4) 42 Oliver –––, 2020 World Rally Championship driver, son of the 2003 champion (7)
43 Alastair –––, Essex batsman who made 172 in the 1st innings of the 2020 Bob Willis
Trophy Final against Somerset (4)
44 Luke –––, actor who starred as Damien Brooks in the 2020 action film Pay Dirt (4)
45 Changed (7)
48 and 19 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted novel by Brandon Taylor (4,4)
49 Lance –––, actor who played Willis in the 2020 film drama Falling (9)
50 2020 US Open women’s singles champion (5,5) 53 Wayne –––, singer born Glyn Geoffrey Ellis who died in August (7)
54 Carmen –––, actress who played Addie in the 2020 Netflix mini-series Self Made: Inspired By The Life Of Madam C.J. Walker (5)
55 ––– Blackman, The Avengers and Goldfinger actress who died in April (5)
56 Passageway between seating areas in a theatre (5)
58 Football nation that beat Serbia in a play-off penalty shoot-out to qualify for Euro 2020 (8) 60 Elizabeth –––, actress who played Kat in the 2020 action film Tenet (7)
61 Joel –––, actor who plays Lord in the upcoming film drama The Green Knight (8)
66 Sophie –––, actress in the comedy-drama TV series Flack (Picture B) (7)
68 See 11 Across 70 Character voiced by Idina Menzel in the 2013 animated film Frozen (4)
71 Actor who starred as Sam in the HBO-Sky Atlantic mini-series The Third Day (4,3) 74 British ventriloquist associated with puppets Monkey and Granny (4,5)
75 2020 Kentucky Derby winner ridden by John Velazquez (9)
76 Cynthia –––, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Harriet (5)
77 Jon –––, Birmingham City midfielder signed in August (5)
78 2020 UK No1 album by
Ariana Grande (9)
79 British actress whose films for
Mike Leigh include 1988’s High Hopes and 2010’s Another Year (4,5)
DOWN
1 Tadej – – –, Slovenian cyclist, 2020
Tour de France winner (7)
2 Anya – – –, actress who starred in the Netflix drama series The Queen’s Gambit (6-3) 3 Immobile (5)
4 Triangle whose sides are unequal in length (7)
5 2020-21 Ligue 1 football club in France coached by Christian Gourcuff (6)
6 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier (7,3)
7 Ian –––, actor who played Ryan in the BBC drama series Noughts + Crosses (4)
8 Antti – – –, former Finland, Hearts,
Fulham and Southampton goalkeeper (5)
9 Ben –––, cricketer who captained England in the 1st Test against West Indies in Southampton in 2020 (6)
10 Rapper who released the UK No1 album Crabs In A Bucket (5)
11 2020 Derby winner ridden by
Emmet McNamara (10)
12 William Shakespeare play, his shortest tragedy (7)
13 Turnips (5)
21 Largest town in Torfaen, Wales (7)
23 The –––, AFC Bournemouth nickname (8)
25 Allegra –––, Downing Street Press
Secretary since November (8)
27 Leader of the Labour Party since April (4,7) 28 Mohamed –––, Egypt and Liverpool attacker, 2017-18 FWA Footballer of the Year (Picture C) (5)
29 Actor who played Barry Glickman in the 2020 comedy-musical film The Prom (5,6)
30 Spanish F1 driver (6,5)
31 Tony –––, Sheffield Wednesday FC manager appointed in November (5)
32 2020 Booker Prize winner, written by Douglas Stuart (7,4)
35 Spiny anteater (7)
37 2020 action film starring Craig Fairbrass and Robert Glenister (7)
40 Taylor Swift’s first studio album of 2020 (8) 41 2020 UK No1 single by Internet
Money and Gunna, featuring Don
Toliver and Nav (8)
46 Canadian rapper who topped the UK album charts in 2020 with mixtape Dark
Lane Demo Tapes (5)
47 Genus of perennial plants of warm climates (7)
48 William –––, name by which William II of England was known (5)
51 Irish actor who played Connell in
Normal People (4,6)
52 US rock group whose 2020 release Imploding The Mirage topped the UK album charts (3,7)
57 Celestial body orbiting the earth (9)
59 Des – – –, entertainer and television host who died in November (7)
62 US singer born Amala Ratna
Zandile Dlamini whose single Say So reached No2 in the UK charts (4,3)
63 Stevenage or Basildon, for example (3,4) 64 Physical position where the legs are in line with each other and extended in opposite directions (6)
65 Harriet –––, actress who played Muriel Carpenter in Soldiering On, part of
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads 3 (6)
66 2020 UK No1 single by Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy (3,2)
67 Confess (3,2)
69 Hugh –––, actor who co-starred as Jonathan Fraser in the HBO mini-series The Undoing (5) 72 Put on one’s clothes (5)
73 Samuel –––, former Chelsea and Barcelona footballer (4)