£1000 Big Name Crossword

Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking Rosie O’donnell and Sissy Spacek, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.

ACROSS

Good-looking (8) Interlinked metal rings used to make flexible armour (5, 4)

Car foot pedal used to change gear (6) Rock (5)

Athlete’s spear (7) Unpleasant (5)

The — in Black,

1983 horror novel (5)

20 Notion (4)

21 King’s son (6)

22 Refined,

discerning (8)

23 Long walk (4)

26 Farmyard bird (5)

28 Linseed oil paste

used by glaziers (5)

29 Dark reddish-purple

colour (6)

33 Dull pain (4)

34 Run away

to marry (5)

35 Uncover (6)

39 Female horse (4)

40 Have faith in (5)

42 Spread for bread (9)

45 Resonate (4)

47 Person on a

journey to a shrine (7)

48 Widespread

slaughter (7)

49 Cosy (4)

52 Unlawfully,

illicitly (9)

53 Mixer served with gin (5)

54 Hindu woman’s

draped garment (4)

57 Marzipan nut (6)

59 Fairly (5)

60 Locks, tresses (4)

64 Shire (6)

65 Allege (5)

66 Strong metal used for girders (5) Planet (4)

Scatter liquid (8) Shrewd, good at business (6)

75 Reasonable, just (4)

79 Ceasefire (5)

80 Guile (5)

81 Bird similar to

a swift (7)

82 Decorate (5)

83 Puzzling

rhyme (6)

84 Woodworker (9)

85 Equine sport (8) 1 5

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DOWN

Conflict in 1066, the Battle of — (8) Hangman’s loop (5) Search high and low (4) — Tom, character who features in David Bowie’s song Space Oddity (5) Protective hat (6)

Catch fire (6)

Extremely small (9) — Morse,

TV detective series (9) Area of mown grass (4) Coming 24 hours (8) Former British colony handed back to China in 1997 (4, 4)

14 Level (4)

15 Sweet sauce (5)

24 Cut (5)

25 Mobile home (7)

27 Happen (5)

30 Limit, confine (8)

31 Extra payment (5)

32 Ordinary,

unexceptional (7)

36 Loss of memory (7)

37 Potter’s oven (4)

38 Black-and-white flightless marine bird (7) Margaret —, first UK female prime minister (8)

42 Creature

prized for its fur (4)

43 One thousand

thousand (7)

44 Unsightly (4)

46 Cavity (4)

50 Nimbleness (7)

51 Slug with a

shell on its back (5)

55 Similar (5)

56 Card game (5)

58 Leader of

Tibet’s Buddhists (5, 4)

59 Fast ballroom dance (9)

61 Sword with

a curved blade (8)

62 Encircle (8)

63 Italian city (8)

67 Gap (5)

68 Teaching session (6)

69 Martial art (6)

73 Inform (4)

74 Tall narrow

building (5)

76 Scent (5)

77 Water source (4)

78 Deep male

singing range (4) 1

2 3 4

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