€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.

ACROSS

1 Assimilate mentally (6) 4 One putting forward motion for debate (8) 10 Blasphemous language (9) 11 Spanish wine (5) 12 Hut (5) 13 Gad about (9) 14 Annoy continually (6) 16 Cowboy film (7) 18 Solved, deciphered (eg code) (7) 20 Those avoiding other people’s company (6) 23 Cut-throat competition or self-interest (3, 3, 3) 25 Story by Aesop, perhaps (5) 26 — Harris, singer (5) 27 Jumble, disorder (9) 28 Bedtime drink (8) 29 Female fowl (6)

DOWN

1 Portray (6) 2 Farewell (7) 3 Mark, discoloration (5) 5 Regal (5) 6 Michael —, chat show host (9) 7 Space for keeping stock (7) 8 Cooking (eg meat) in oven (8) 9 Showed reluctance to leave (8) 15 Separate components (4, 5) 16 — Amadeus Mozart, composer (8) 17 One cause of pollution (4, 4) 19 Fishing (7) 21 Garbage (7) 22 Knight’s flag (6) 24 Russian country house (5) 25 Wind instrument (5)