€1000 Big name crossword

Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Ronald Regan and Jacques Chirac, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win €1000.

ACROSS

1 Diminutive musician married to Sophie Dahl (5, 6) 8 Actor who starred in American Beauty and Superman

Returns (5, 6) 14 Employees (5)

15 Band of crooks (4) 16 Partial refund (6)

17 Force (6)

18 Corn husks (4) 19 Fossilised resin (5) 20 Established as true (11) 22 Arrange to coincide (11) 25 Defame (7)

27 Opposite of western (7) 30 On the ball (5)

31 Snake poison (5) 33 Archives (7)

36 Angling permit? (7) 38 Portion of cake (5) 40 Boundaries (6)

41 Plant for flavouring (4) 43 Container for builder’s waste (4)

44 Heat (6)

45 Put in an envelope (7) 46 Our planet (5)

47 Worth the same (5) 48 Fool, dolt (5)

52 Group of lions (5)

53 In the direction of (7) 54 Rhyming literature (6) 55 Fable (4)

57 Difficult (4)

59 Splendid (6)

60 Banquet (5)

61 Boffin (7) 63 Instruction, order (7) 65 Jotted down (5) 67 Background film actor (5)

69 Feign (7)

71 Fit in (7)

74 Fruit, anagram of

GOT PEAR NAME (11) 77 Very, very old (11) 80 Circular in shape (5) 81 Strong taste (4)

82 Study of plants (6)

84 Shed for horses (6) 86 Language of Pakistan (4)

87 Female fox (5)

88 Model who married Duran Duran’s lead singer in 1985 (6,2, 3) 89 Comic actor in George and Mildred and Last of the Summer Wine (5, 6)

DOWN

1 Puzzle of interlocking pieces (6) 2 Care of the hands (8) 3 Gold purity unit (5) 4 High tennis shot (3) 5 Unfasten (5)

6 Stutter (7)

7 Crime, felony (7)

9 Black timber (5) 10 Mischievous child (3) 11 (Energy) from the sun (5)

12 Knitwear item (8) 13 There in the distance (6)

21 Hut made of snow (5) 23 Swear (5) 24 Make longer (7) 26 All-time low point (5) 28 Ruse (5)

29 Middling (7)

30 US singersongwriter married to Evan Ross (6, 7)

32 Wife of the 44th US President (8, 5)

34 Herd of sheep (5) 35 Exclusive press story (5) 37 Decorate with needlework (9) 39 Protected with a vaccine (9)

42 Under (7)

43 Egocentric (7) 49 Submarine missile (7) 50 Chimney cleaner (5) 51 Lawn growth (5)

52 Loot, pillage (7) 56 Characteristic (5) 58 Distant, detached (5) 62 Wading bird (5)

64 Swamp (5)

66 Final stop on a train route (8)

68 Sign of weeping (8) 70 Down payment (7) 71 Shop table (7) 72 Complete indifference (6)

73 Inhabit (6)

75 Redbreast (5)

76 Latin style of dance (5) 78 Helicopter propeller (5) 79 Water vapour (5) 83 Golfer’s peg (3) 85 Constricting snake (3)