£1000 Big Name Crossword
Solve the clues and the shaded squares will spell out words linking LADY GAGA and JAMES MAY, then call or text the numbers below with your prize words for a chance to win £1000.
ACROSS
1 Make more easy (8)
5 Backpack (9)
10 Trauma (6)
16 Police weapon (5)
17 Bed cover (7)
18 Reach the sum of (3,2)
19 Hearten (5)
20 – Ephron, US filmmaker (4) 21 Wreck (6)
22 Keels over (8)
23 Cheese (4)
26 Arrangement (3-2)
28 Swiss mountain cry (5)
29 Dies in water (6)
33 Broad smile (4)
34 Devoured (5)
35 Continent (6)
39 Sea eagle (4)
40 Period of darkness (5)
42 Imprisonment (9)
45 Ache (4)
47 The last bit (4-3)
48 Compendium (7)
49 Black cab (4)
52 Explosive mixture (9)
53 Lord –, business magnate (5) 54 Former Chinese imperial
dynasty (4)
57 Disable a racehorse (6)
59 Paved garden area (5)
60 Sly (4)
64 Season (6)
65 Face guard (5)
66 Supplementary
component (3-2)
70 Reside (4)
71 Novice (8)
72 Building for housing
aircraft (6)
75 Spicy cuisine (4)
79 Religious images (5)
80 Wherewithal (5)
81 Cake icing (7)
82 Spree (5)
83 Paper handkerchief (6)
84 Unhurried (9)
85 Completely different (8)
DOWN
1 Devil-worshipper (8)
2 Scrooge (5)
3 His Dark Materials character,
– Belacqua (4)
4 Filament (5)
6 Not acid (6)
7 Lure in (6)
8 Dismantle (5,4)
9 Many-legged creature (9)
11 Wealthy (4)
12 Facial features (8)
13 Generosity (8)
14 Irish royal hill (4)
15 Uninterested (5)
24 Very tired (5)
25 Vivid (7)
27 Italian city (5)
30 Connotations (8)
31 Theatrical platform (5)
32 Withdraw (4,3)
36 Slow liquid loss (7)
37 Turkish monetary unit (4)
38 Injecting tool (7)
41 The Day After –, 2004
film (8)
42 Part of the lower jaw (4)
43 Unrecoverable money
loaned (3,4)
44 Smudge (4)
46 Pubs (4)
50 Japanese artist and
activist (4,3)
51 Ornamental stone (5)
55 Loitered (5)
56 Twist sharply (5)
58 Get rid of (9)
59 Forecast (9)
61 Composer of sacred
songs (8)
62 Happening before (8)
63 Completeness (8)
67 Paper quantities (5)
68 Public speaker (6)
69 Small church (6)
73 Dark film genre (4)
74 Hostility (5)
76 Reddish dye (5)
77 Biblical character (4)
78 Assist illegally (4)
Big Name Crossword solutions in next Saturday’s Daily Mirror