PRIZE crossword
Solve the crossword to find, reading from top to bottom in the shaded squares, the name of an actor. This is your competition entry answer. See the ‘How to enter’ panel, below right.
Across
1 Superstar singer and TV personality (7)
4 Flightless bird (7)
8 Staying power (7)
12 American field game (8)
14 Person telling a story (8)
17 His Dark Materials star, Dafne - - - (4) 18 Star of Luther and
The Wire, - - - Elba (5) 19 Nevada city associated with gambling and speedy divorces (4) 20 Ingredient in mortar (6) 21 Donny - - -, US singer and former teen idol (6) 23 Stadium (5)
25 - - - Witherspoon, Little Fires Everywhere and Walk The Line actress, pictured below (5)
26 Flag of the UK (5,4) 27 Film series featuring a woolly mammoth (3,3) 29 Puzzle, riddle (6)
32 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of - - -, film with Daniel Radcliffe (7)
35 Additional period of play in sport (5,4)
37 Wheel correction (9)
39 Faucet (3)
41 Flat piece of concrete (4)
42 Place of worship (6)
43 Indifference (6)
44 Exploding star (4)
45 1992 movie set in a convent with Whoopi Goldberg and Maggie Smith, Sister - - - (3) 47 Governmental alliance between parties (9) 50 Embellishment, decoration (9) 53 Strategic methods (7)
56 - - - Lincoln, The Walking Dead actor (6) 58 Phoebe’s identical twin in Friends (6)
60 (Of clothes) ready-towear (3-3-3)
62 Peter Sallis’ role in Last Of The Summer Wine (5)
63 Last Greek letter (5)
64 Historic London theatre
that opened in 1818 (3,3)
66 - - - Bannatyne, former Dragons’ Den entrepreneur (6)
68 Saintly circle of light (4)
70 Hair tool, curling - - - (5)
72 Leonardo da Vinci painting, - - - Lisa (4) 73 Post-piste entertainment (5-3) 74 Fur helmet of the British Army (8)
75 Film and TV series with Vicky Mcclure and Joe Gilgun, This Is - - - (7) 76 Fashionable set (2-5) 77 Egyptian monument (7)
Down
1 Crow-like bird (7)
2 Christopher Robin star, - - - Mcgregor (4) 3 Jim Carrey comedy,
Me, Myself And - - - (5) 5 Single diamond (9) 6 Katy Perry junglethemed hit (4) 7 Non-vowel (9) 9 Exercise on public transport? (5)
10 Heathland (4)
11 Central body area (7)
12 - - - Cumberbatch, Sherlock and Patrick Melrose star (8) 13 Tree-lined road (6) 15 Updated version of a film (6)
16 Traitor, defector (8) 20 Photography tool (6) 22 Fire-breathing mythical creature (6) 24 - - - Riseborough, Oblivion actress (6) 28 Rule of thumb (9) 30 Person next door (9) 31 Star of Zero Dark Thirty and Molly’s Game, - - - Chastain, pictured right (7) 32 Biblical snake (7) 33 Telly - - -, Kojak star (7) 34 Furtiveness (7)
36 - - - Wilson, Aussie actress (5) 38 Musical note worth two crotchets (5)
39 Earl Grey, eg (3)
40 Square of butter (3) 46 Memorably tuneful (6) 48 Star of Two Doors Down and The Fast Show, - - - Weir (8)
49 Dark jeans’ dye (6)
51 Cell that transmits nerve impulses (6) 52 Argentine first lady portrayed in film by Madonna (3,5) 54 Tenderness (9) 55 Upper lip shape (6,3) 57 Kevin Costner film,
Dances With - - - (6) 58 Kampala’s country (6) 59 Star of Deadwood and
Lovejoy, Ian - - - (7) 61 Most virtuous knight of the Round Table (7) 65 Extended morning snooze (3-2)
67 Chemical analysis (of metal or ore) (5)
69 Milky gemstone (4)
71 Film - - -, genre (4)
72 - - - Paris, singer who played Ellie Nixon in Eastenders (4)