€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 Become more advanced, evolve (7) 4 Pale seedless raisin (7) 7 Contest (11) 9 Leave out (4) 10 Able to withstand frost (5) 11 Unsightly, hideous (4) 14 Players who prevent the other team from scoring (7) 15 Letter (7) 16 Ghost (7) 18 TV station (7) 20 Corporate emblem (4) 21 Crass, mindless (5) 22 Bed of grass (4) 25 French vegetable stew (11) 26 Ruler of a vast domain (7) 27 Mental strain (7)

DOWN

1 Hardest-known mineral (7) 2 Citrus fruit (4) 3 Make ready (7) 4 Fraudulent deal (7) 5 Beast’s den (4) 6 Study, examine (7) 7 Suspenseful ending of an episode (11) 8 Nocturnal songbird (11) 12 Join together (5) 13 Ultimate (5) 16 Artist’s paint board (7) 17 Ogre (7) 18 Direct (an orchestra) (7) 19 Lamp in a glass case (7) 23 Celebrity (4) 24 Strategy (4)