£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 _ Garraway, TV presenter (4)
9 Like a reserve (2,3,5)
10 Of the very best (3-3)
11 Five-sided polygon (8)
12 A sword’s handle (4)
13 Country in Asia (5,5)
17 Tim _, Dutch goalkeeper (4)
18 Mediterranean island (5)
19 Musical pitch indicator (4)
20 Unwanted derivatives of an
industrial process (2-8)
22 _ Turner, Arctic Monkeys
singer (4)
23 _ Rossellini, star of the films Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her (8)
27 Nullify (6)
28 Discharges, emissions (10)
29 _ Culkin, actor whose films
include Signs and Scream 4 (4)
DOWN
1 Ingratiatingly; in a too-informal
way (10)
2 Dry (as many are in January) (8)
3 In a terrible rage, informally (7,3) 4 At the summit (4)
5 _ Astin, played Samwise Gamgee
in the Lord of the Rings films (4) 6 Small leisure boat (6)
7 Reverberate (4)
14 Artifact (5)
15 Huskiness (10)
16 Not difficult, simple (10)
19 Devices for topping up
batteries (8)
21 _ Duvall, star of the films The Godfather and Days of
Thunder (6)
24 Spotted (4)
25 Behind schedule (4)
26 Stratford’s river (4)