The name game

Hidden in the grid is the name of a former soap actor. Answer the questions, then rearrange the letters corresponding to your answers to fill in the name.

BOX1: Which animated duo feature in the short film The Wrong Trousers?

Shaggy and Scooby-Doo (I) Wallace and Gromit (J) Tom and Jerry (T)

BOX2: What boxing weight class falls between bantamweight and lightweight?

Featherweight (U) Cruiserweight (M) Middleweight (P)

BOX3: In which century was the Taj Mahal built?

Sixteenth (L) Seventeenth (N) Eighteenth (I)

BOX4: What is a Portuguese man-of-war?

Tornado (O) Red chilli (R) Jellyfish (E)

BOX5: Which actor has NOT played Sherlock Holmes?

Benedict Cumberbatch (S) David Tennant (R) Robert Downey Jr (D)

BOX6: Which gas raises the pitch of the human voice when inhaled?

Helium (O) Hydrogen (N) Nitrogen (Y)

BOX7: Who was the first occupant of Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey?

Edmund Spenser (G) John Donne (A) Geoffrey Chaucer (B)

BOX8: What type of instrument is a bodhran?

Woodwind (H) Percussion (E) Strings (F)

BOX9: The tributaries of which river include the Inn, Sava, Tisza and Prut?

Nile (C) Danube (S) Orange (W)

BOX10: Stephanie Kwolek (pictured) invented which substance?

Teflon (A) Kevlar (C) Polystyrene (K)