Puzzles for you to enjoy

Four pages of fun – with cash prizes to win!

ACROSS

1&4A Award-winning actress who has taken over the role of Elizabeth II in The Crown from Claire Foy (6,6)

4 See 1A

7&26A&27A Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday and Pugsley collectively, who have been reinvented in animated form for a new film, just in time for Halloween (3,6,6)

8 Ointment, cream (6)

9 As ___ as A, B, C, expression (4)

10 Electronic post? (5)

11 Penny ___, pound foolish, saying (4) 13 Express tiredness (4)

15 Basking, tiger and hammerhead fish, eg (5) 17 Noisy card-matching game (4)

19 Style of cuisine native to Jamaica, where hot spice mixture is rubbed into meat, or used in a marinade (4)

21 Zodiac sign of the ram (5)

23 Baby deer (4)

24 There’s ___ in my madness, saying (6) 25 Knight’s title (3)

26 See 7A

27 See 7A

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1 Wild West criminal, eg (6)

2 Italian city where you’d find the

Bridge of Sighs (6)

3 Make amends (for your sins) (5) 4 Mythical half man-half horse (7)

5 ‘___ jubbly’, Del Boy’s catchphrase in Only Fools And Horses (6)

6 Dark shade of blue (4)

12 Tavern (3)

14 Mars was the Roman god of this (3) 16 Woman who has inherited, or is set to inherit, a fortune (8)

18 Wide-brimmed hat or a country in Central America (6)

19 Flotsam and ___, wreckage of a ship, eg, washed up by the sea (6)

20 One of two bean-shaped organs in the body (6)

22 Small blue fictional creature, originally featured in a Belgian comic, who lives in a colony, and is pursued by Gargamel (5)

23 Crumbly Greek cheese (4)