€1000 Big Name Crossword

Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking MEERA SYAL and ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win €1000.

ACROSS

1 At an unspecified future

date (8)

5 Eden (8)

10 Magical priests (7)

15 Decree (5)

16 Stalks (5)

17 Cask-conditioned beer (4,3) 18 Feed with fuel (5)

19 Top card (3)

20 Vigilance (9)

21 Sea mollusc (4)

22 Huts (6)

23 Plundered (6)

25 Line on a weather map (8) 28 Facial features (5)

30 Stock units (6)

31 Befall (6)

34 Field rodents (7)

36 Vulgar (6)

38 Model (4)

39 Open-topped car (8)

42 Took a breather (6)

44 Ill-defined (9)

46 Cut of beefsteak (6)

48 Workers’ cafes (8)

49 English comedian, – Carr (4) 50 Vandalise (6)

53 Showjumping prize (7)

55 Shiny topcoat (6)

56 Tooth decay (6)

58 Scorches (5)

60 Laboratory vessel (4,4)

63 Shorten a garment (4,2)

67 Phases (6)

68 Quarrels (4)

70 Exhibition work (9)

72 Pallid (3)

74 European river (5)

75 Appease (7)

76 Sergeant, informally (5)

77 Exclusive (5)

78 Felt hat (7)

79 Wizard (8)

80 Good order (8)

DOWN

1 Playground items (7)

2 Cereal grain (5)

3 Private chat (4-1-4)

4 Failed to hit (6)

6 Respond (6)

7 Takes into custody (7)

8 Mathematician, – Newton (5) 9 Spread out from (7)

10 Sleigh (4)

11 Non-voter (9)

12 Extreme pains (7)

13 Slow-cooked dishes (5)

14 Bird structure (4)

24 Broadcaster, – Amfo (5)

26 Ancient galley (7)

27 Foolishly impulsive (6)

29 Clairvoyant (4)

30 Make safe (6)

32 Pardon (9)

33 Noblemen (5)

35 – Adler, character in Sherlock

Holmes stories (5)

37 Fragrance (5)

40 Hogs (5)

41 Control sticks (6)

43 Wound marks (5)

44 Lexicographer, – Dent (5)

45 Unyielding (7)

47 Make warm again (6)

51 TV presenter, – Roberts (5) 52 Vases (4)

54 Insipid (9)

57 Degradation (9)

59 Greed (7)

61 Husbands or wives (7)

62 Crowd round (7)

64 Meditates (7)

65 Chilled dessert (6)

66 Break a promise (6)

67 Painful afflictions (5)

69 British drummer, Ringo – (5) 71 Pig meat (4)

72 Snooker ball colour (5)

73 Mountain lake (4)

Big Name Crossword solutions in next Saturday’s Irish Mirror