€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

3 Time to celebrate dads (7,3) 8 Full of merriment (6) 9 Very thin foil made of a precious metal (4-4) 10 Destroy completely (8) 11 Mighty, powerful (6) 12 Study of mechanical beings (8) 15 Making easy to an excessive degree (15) 17 Type of programme featuring a lot of talking (4,4) 19 Person with great skill (6) 23 Farewell bugle call at military funerals (4,4) 24 School work done out of lessons (8) 25 Glacial epoch (3,3) 26 British or American commando (5,5)

DOWN

1 Truthful (6) 2 Japanese robe (6) 3 Marine creature able to glide (6,4) 4 Circus performer (9,6) 5 Slippery fish served in jelly (4) 6 Without a sound (8) 7 Language of the Semitic people (6) 11 Indifferent to pleasure or pain (5) 13 Protective coverall (6,4) 14 Sense of vision (5) 16 Get (something) back (8) 18 Righteousness, integrity (6) 20 Pungent seasoning (6) 21 Hand in one’s notice (6) 22 Device for arranging hair (4)