£1000 Big Name Crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking DOMHNALL GLEESON and CAITRIONA BALFE, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
ACROSS
1 Vastness of size or scale (8) 5 Pacifies (8) 10 Gruesome (7) 15 Acquire knowledge (5) 16 Naming words (5) 17 Showing silent agreement (7) 18 Furious (5) 19 Tissue layer (3) 20 Cartoon artists (9) 21 Told fibs (4) 22 Divided (6) 23 Antelopes (6) 25 Generosity (8)
28 Calendar Girls actress, Celia – (5)
30 Fleet –, Monopoly property (6)
31 NASA moon mission (6) 34 Earnest (7) 36 Presuppose (6) 38 Elm, for example (4)
39 Theory of Relativity physicist (8)
42 Child without living parents (6)
44 Authors (9) 46 Hungarian language (6) 48 Charm (8) 49 American activist, – Parks (4) 50 Swiss wooden house (6) 53 Freely given (7) 55 Coiffure (6) 56 Crude (6) 58 Historic site in Jordan (5) 60 Wedge-shaped tenon (8) 63 Forge (6) 67 Most recent (6) 68 Irritates (4) 70 Jewish sect (9) 72 Nonvenomous snake (3) 74 Grinding tooth (5) 75 Unruly (7) 76 Spinal cartilage layers (5) 77 As a joke (2,3) 78 Surrenders (5,2) 79 Ranks of nobility (8) 80 Having a plant disease (8)
DOWN
1 1980s hit song, Total – of the Heart (7)
2 Source of eggs (5) 3 Treat or push roughly (9) 4 Sport (6) 6 Lariats (6) 7 Card game (7) 8 Of ocean movement (5) 9 Hidden shooters (7) 10 Poker Face singer, Lady - (4) 11 Mental upheaval (9) 12 Renegade (7) 13 Cede (5) 14 Atmosphere (4) 24 Units of farmland (5) 26 Ships’ kitchens (7) 27 Relieving (6) 29 Sight organs (4) 30 Skiing race (6) 32 Unable to move (9) 33 Cookers (5) 35 British actress, – Watson (5)
37 US crime drama series, – Vice (5)
40 Educate (5) 41 Public speaker (6) 43 Alternative strategy (4,1)
44 Beethoven’s final symphony (5)
45 Jury’s decision (7) 47 Grinned (6) 51 Lamp (5) 52 Smack (4) 54 Restores confidence to (9) 57 Removing a disguise (9) 59 In name only (7) 61 Wordy (7) 62 Enforced (7) 64 Pined (7) 65 Bicycle for two (6) 66 Container for liquid (6) 67 Restrict (5) 69 Animal’s trail (5) 71 Wee, – bitsy (4) 72 Be suitable (5) 73 Older relative (4)
Big Name Crossword solutions in next Saturday’s Daily Mirror