€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 Division, crack (5) 4 Item of dining-room furniture (9) 9 Spread for bread (9) 10 Mediterranean herb (5) 11 Ditty, verse (5) 12 Insipid (9) 13 Supermarket cart (7) 15 Exact (7) 18 Organic (7) 20 Stones on a beach (7) 21 Dubious (9) 23 Woody —, US film director (5) 25 Phantom of the —, Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (5) 26 Global (9) 27 Popular type of soft toy (5, 4) 28 Thomas —, author who wrote Far From the Madding Crowd (5)

DOWN

1 The Good —, biblical parable (9) 2 — Hagman, actor who played JR in Dallas (5) 3 Person on a journey (9) 4 Quickly (7) 5 Put on your glad rags! (5, 2) 6 Christian holy book (5) 7 Replying (9) 8 Guys and—, classic musical (5) 14 Getting better (2, 3, 4) 16 Name of two queens of England (9) 17 For ever (9) 19 Instructive talk given to students (7) 20 Member of the army (7) 21 Captain —, South Pole adventurer (5) 22 Spencer —, classic Hollywood star (5) 24 Intense light beam (5)