€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 Spice grinder (6,4) 8 Appropriate (6) 9 Cover with a thin sheet (8) 10 Activities after sport in the snow (5-3) 11 Beetle considered divine by Egyptians (6) 12 Olympic competitors (8) 15 Bed warmer? (8,7) 17 Spanish dance (8) 19 Whodunnit board game (6) 23 Precious stone, usually blue (8) 24 Tubes of pasta (8) 25 Join (6) 26 Curved piece of wood for storing a jacket (4,6)

DOWN

1 Either of two parallel lines of latitude (6) 2 Look (6) 3 Powerful person in the media (5,5) 4 Safe place to get from one side of the road to another (7,8) 5 Austen’s heroine (4) 6 Source of sprouts used in Chinese cooking (4,4) 7 Small (6) 11 Ledge (5) 13 Chopper (10) 14 Brief disagreement (3-2) 16 Cylindrical rod used in piston engines (8) 18 In music, smooth and connected (6) 20 Maintain (6) 21 Under which things are done unwillingly (6) 22 Seat for two or more (4)