€500 Star search

For your chance to win €500 fill in the crossword and the shaded squares will spell out the name of a celebrity — this is your prize answer. Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

ACROSS

1 Acknowledged with a military gesture (7) 4 Really angry (7) 7 Girl employed to clean bedrooms (11) 9 Group of soldiers (4) 10 Extraterrestrial body (5) 11 Convinced (4) 14 Very romantic (7) 15 Vivid red (7) 16 Someone who sees an event (7) 18 Work (7) 20 Smell bad (4) 21 Military trainee (5) 22 Put up with (4) 25 Plight (11) 26 Sunshade (7) 27 Laying grass (7)

DOWN

1 Dried grape (7) 2 Number of players in the same side (4) 3 Iffy (7) 4 Medical pincers (7) 5 Genuine (4) 6 Scholar (7) 7 Pile of manure (7,4) 8 Spy (6,5) 12 Pugilist (5) 13 Provide food and drink (5) 16 Idolise (7) 17 Small gun-dog (7) 18 Ham it up (7) 19 Making money from work (7) 23 Information (4) 24 Close (4)