£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

1 Mel _, director of The Producers

and Blazing Saddles (6)

4 The _, 1953 play about the Salem

witch trials (8)

9 Flammable hydrocarbon gas (6)

10 Sudden rush of animals (8)

12 Liquid used in cookery (5,3)

13 Writer (6)

15 _ Rogen, star of the films Pineapple

Express and The Interview (4)

16 Lead singer of Take That (4,6)

19 In the first stages (5,5)

20 Muscular, informally (4)

23 Relic (6)

25 Partisan (3-5)

27 Merges (8)

28 _ Bridgers, US singersongwriter (6)

29 US legislators (8)

30 Winding (6)

DOWN

1 US creator and host of The Joy

of Painting (3,4)

2 Supplier of clothes (9)

3 Doghouse (6)

5 _ Moreno, star of the 1961

musical film West Side Story (4) 6 Shared (8)

7 Large tree (5)

8 Arch of hair (7)

11 Repudiate or disclaim (7)

14 Fire hose supplier (7)

17 Washerwoman (9)

18 Song word writer (8)

19 Personal belongings (7)

21 Restless (7)

22 Shun or avoid (6)

24 _ Cowell, record producer and

reality TV star (5)

26 Prophet (4)