CELEBRITY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 The _ Lads, classic TV
sitcom (6)
4 TV expert on bushcraft and
survival (3,5)
10 _ Palmisciano, transgender actor playing Matty Barton in Emmerdale (3)
11 Fragrant Miley Cyrus hit,
straight in at No1 (7)
13 _ And Frankie, Netflix comedy with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin (5)
14 Shaffer Chimere Smith’s
performing name (2-2)
15 _ Headey, Game Of
Thrones actress (4)
16 See 20 Down
18 The _ Monty, comedy flick
about male strippers (4)
19 Richard _’_, original host of
The Crystal Maze (1’5) 21 Scottish professional snooker star and un-Masked
Singer, Stephen _ (6) 22 Elmo and Oscar the Grouch
live on _ Street (6)
Rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out the name of the celebrity in the centre of the grid
24 Blockbuster movie director and producer, _ Emmerich (6)
25 _ Winton, much-missed
Supermarket Sweep and
National Lottery host (4) 29 TV drama set in the court
of King Arthur (7)
32 & 36 Across First star to be eliminated from Dancing On Ice 2023 (4,7) 33 One-word hit for Eternal, Shakespears Sister and The Hollies (4)
35 Los _, shot to fame with
La Bamba in 1987 (5) 36 See 32 Across
37 Old Town Road hitmaker,
Lil _ X (3)
38 Matt _, creator of The
Simpsons (8)
39 Outgoing University Challenge question master, _ Paxman (6)
DOWN
1 Jane Danson’s Corrie
character, _ Battersby (6) 2 Vietnamese actor who won a Golden Globe for his role in 23 Down (2,3,4)
3 Sort Your _ Out,
decluttering show with Stacey Solomon (4) 5 Fashionable Brit,
_ Chung (5)
6 J Hus’s definite track from
2019 (4,2)
7 First name of David Bowie’s
first wife (5)
8 Joe _, King of the I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! jungle in 2008 (5)
9 Only chart topper for Bill
Withers (4,2,2)
12 Amanda _, glamorous
Yorkshire shepherdess (4) 17 Buzz _, astronaut who
has recently remarried
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at the age of 93 (6)
20 & 16 Across She plays Northumberland and City DCI Vera (6,7) 21 Catherine Tate comedy set
in a women’s prison (4,4) 23 Everything, Everywhere,
_ _ _, 2022 sci-fi flick (3,2,4) 26 Food writer, broadcaster and
YouTuber, _ Gates (6)
27 _ Gilmore, singer-songwriter
also known as Afterlight (4) 28 Late singer-songwriter,
_ de Paul (6)
30 Carrie Bradshaw’s nickname for her eventual husband (2,3) 31 Ted _, eponymous US football coach who comes to the UK (5)
32 Star of The Catch,
_ Watkins (5)
34 Celebrity twins, Matt
and _ Goss (4)