£1000 Big Name Crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking MARY BERRY and USAIN BOLT, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
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1 Baseball players (8)
5 Economic decline (9)
10 Large vegetable (6)
16 Most respected person (5)
17 Shelter for a vehicle (7)
18 Woodwind instruments (5)
19 Welsh actor, Michael – (5)
20 Pig’s snort (4)
21 Nation on Borneo (6)
22 Crooked (8)
23 Rich soil (4)
26 Glory (5)
28 Ancient Greek story teller (5) 29 Interment (6)
33 A fruit (4)
34 Existence (5)
35 Female relatives (6)
39 Optimum (4)
40 Brief written records (5)
42 Proof or tribute (9)
45 Elevator (4)
47 Having dual lenses (7)
48 Eccentricity (7)
49 Restrain (4)
52 As it were (2,2,5)
53 Fling (5)
54 Be idle (4)
57 Lightly coloured (6)
59 Stomach (5)
60 Rugby forward (4)
64 Become fond of (4,2)
65 Moist (5)
66 Synagogue minister (5)
70 Skilled (4)
71 Capital of Malta (8)
72 Chewy sweet (6)
75 Small amount (4)
79 Child’s toilet (5)
80 Copper, say (5)
81 Regains consciousness (5,2) 82 Great fear (5)
83 Having a meal (6)
84 Lacking a backbone (9)
85 Accident resulting in
death (8)
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1 Security devices (8)
2 Check for fit (3,2)
3 Car horn sound (4)
4 Happen at intervals (5)
6 Of unusual origin (6)
7 Lure (6)
8 Food item (6,3)
9 Alone (2,4,3)
11 Too (4)
12 Lofty speech (8)
13 Air-driven generator (8)
14 Clothes presser (4)
15 City on the Ruhr (5)
24 Employers (5)
25 Hugh Grant film, Four
Weddings and a – (7)
27 Sword or pistol fights (5)
30 Copious (8)
31 Ski trail (5)
32 Persevere (7)
36 Capital of Georgia (7)
37 US actor, – Kelly (4)
38 The King’s Man actor, –
Tucci (7)
41 Obliquely (8)
42 Fish type (4)
43 Stiff clerical cap (7)
44 Tress (4)
46 Gala (4)
50 Garments (1-6)
51 Ingrained dirt (5)
55 Nuclear weapon (1-4)
56 Reject (5)
58 Darts term (6,3)
59 Athletic contest of three
events (9)
61 Fastened securely (8)
62 Bony framework (8)
63 Anniversary (8)
67 British model, – Campbell (5) 68 Rogue (6)
69 Garden statues (6)
73 Soviet Union (4)
74 Hawaiian greeting (5)
76 Ancient British tribe (5)
77 Religious song (4)
78 Notion (4)