£500 Star search

For your chance to win £500 fill in the crossword and the shaded squares will spell out the name of a celebrity — this is your prize answer. Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

ACROSS

8 Brazilian football legend (4) 9 Confusion or

commotion (5-5)

10 Confused mass (6)

11 Allowed (8)

12 Perishes (4)

13 Seem, be interpreted (4,6) 17 Mr _, comic character played by Rowan

Atkinson (4)

18 Particles (5)

19 Cheese type (4)

20 Scary movie (6,4)

22 Looked at carefully (4)

23 Scriptures (4,4)

27 _ Laverne, BBC Radio 6

Music DJ (6)

28 Lacking thoughtfulness (10) 29 Having become aware

of (4)

DOWN

1 About or

concerning (8,2)

2 Rebecca _, The Greatest

Showman actress (8)

3 Use this when unable to

walk (10)

4 Sea eagle (4)

5 Inflamed nodule (4)

6 South wind (6)

7 A colour (4)

14 Aboriginal New

Zealander (5)

15 Collection (10)

16 Account

summaries (10)

19 Requite (4,2,2)

21 Regular beat (6)

24 Sound from a sty (4)

25 Hard skin on bacon (4) 26 Small branch (4)