€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 Religious group (4) 3 Right to market product in a given area (10) 10 Axe (7) 11 Thin unsweetened biscuit (7) 12 Toffee confections on sticks (9) 13 Oath of fidelity (5) 14 Burn (6) 15 Magnificence, splendour (8) 18 Person in charge (8) 20 Power to attract (6) 23 Group of singers (5) 24 Attracting attention (9) 25 Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology (7) 26 Able to float in a liquid (7) 27 Resolved (10) 28 Swing the —, malinger (4)

DOWN

1 Austrian unit of currency replaced by the euro in 2002 (9) 2 Inhabitant of NE Spain (7) 4 Get the better of (6) 5 Overconfident (8) 6 Gun heard at sports event (8, 6) 7 Irritating (7) 8 — Jones, singer (5) 9 Nicole Kidman thriller of 2005 (3, 11) 16 Put down to lower division (9) 17 Roman —, film director (8) 19 — storm, wind of force 11 on Beaufort scale (7) 21 Territory of the Middle East (7) 22 Suitable for growing crops (6) 23 Large gathering (5)