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PLAY our accumulator game! For your chance to win a Cross ballpoint pen, solve the crossword to reveal the letter in the pink circle. If you have been playing since Monday, you should now have a five-letter word. To enter, call 0901 133 4423 and leave your answer and details. Or text 65700 with the word FIVE and your answer and name.
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6 Edwin, British architect who designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall (7) 7 ___ O’Neal, actress who won a Supporting Actress Oscar aged ten for Paper Moon (5) 9 The Yangtze is the longest river in this continent (4) 10 Batman’s real name (5,5) 11 Recreational green area in central London that includes the Serpentine (4,4) 13 To hire or secure the services of (6) 15 The tail of a hare or rabbit (4) 17 Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe as a radio comedy troupe (5) 18 Mark, Take That member who won the second series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2002 (4) 19 A silky sheath spun by insect larvae when becoming pupae (6) 20 Large fish-eating waterbirds with long pouched bills (8) 23 Greg, British ex-long jumper and 2019 Celebrity MasterChef champion (10) 26 Term for a religious group often deviating from the general tradition (4) 27 Mike, U.S. boxer who became the youngest ever heavyweight boxing champion in 1986 at the age of 20 (5) 28 Greek mythological hero who slew the Minotaur in the labyrinth (7)
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1 Companion TV show to Strictly co-hosted by Zoe Ball and Rylan Clark-Neal (2,5,3) 2 Tennis star Novak Djokovic’s home country (6) 3 Elder twin brother of Jacob in the Old Testament (4) 4 Rugby league team whose home ground is Totally Wicked Stadium (2,6) 5 Active volcano on Sicily’s east coast (4) 6 Joseph, U.S. film and theatre director noted for The Servant (5) 8 Kylie, Australian singer whose first UK No 1 hit was I Should Be So Lucky in 1988 (7) 12 Jürgen, German manager who guided Liverpool to the 2020 Premier League title (5) 14 Duke of ____ , British royal title whose heir is the Earl of Ulster (10) 16 Lawn-based game in which balls are driven by wooden mallets through hoops fixed in the ground (7) 17 Necrotic decay of body tissue, often from an impaired blood supply (8) 21 Heath, Brokeback Mountain actor (6) 22 Stevie, U.S singer/songwriter and vocalist with Fleetwood Mac (5) 24 ___ browns, chopped potato cakes cooked on a grill or in a frying pan (4) 25 ___ von Bismarck, Prussian statesman and first chancellor of the German empire (4)