Crossword: Win £550

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Use the anagrams, straight, cryptic, quiz and picture clues to solve the crossword. When completed correctly, the pink squares, reading top to bottom, left to right, will reveal the answer to the question below:

What is the real surname of the actor mentioned in 26A? (6). This is your prize answer. See below for details on how to enter. ACROSS 3 PICTURE A What is this creature called? (5) 6 Illuminated (3) 7 ANAGRAM TAPED 8 You don’t know your a*** from your ___, expression (5) 10 Quick-cooking Japanese noodles, usually served in a broth (5) 11 Stayin’ ___, 1977 Bee Gees hit (5) 12 What name connects scientist Hawking, writer King and intellectual national treasure Fry? (7) 14 Perfect conditions for me to distribute the cards (5) 17 ANAGRAM TOPIC 20 Rotted (7)

23 In maths, what type of number can only be divided between one and itself? (5) 24 Lift and drop shoulders in indifference (5) 25 River grasses (5) 26 PICTURE B This is Joaquin Phoenix as what comic book character? (5) 27 Incorporated – for short! (3) 28 Complete the title of Simply Red’s most successful single: Holding Back The ___ (5) DOWN 1 What type of strong black coffee is made by forcing steam through ground coffee beans? (8) 2 (Of food) cover in alcohol and set alight (6) 3 Strong and extremely unpleasant smell (6) 4 Which US state was the birthplace of Barack Obama, Bruno Mars and Nicole Scherzinger? (6) 5 ANAGRAM VISEED 9 Romantic appointment between two people who have never seen one another before (5,4) 13 23rd Greek letter (3) 15 Main constituent of chromosomes (1,1,1) 16 PICTURE C Who is she? (4,4) 18 You can’t teach an old dog new ___, saying (6) 19 What is the flavour of kirsch? (6) 21 Creme de ___, syrupy blackcurrant liqueur (6) 22 ‘Alas, poor ___! I knew him, Horatio’, famous quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (6)