£500 crossword

ACROSS

1 Two-stage round of singing contest The X Factor (4,4)

4 Hit movie series based on Stephenie Meyer’s novels and starring Robert Pattinson,

The Twilight ---- (4)

8 David ---------, late actor who played Bill in Kill Bill (9) 9 American star of Pitch Perfect and The Hunger Games, --------- Banks (9)

12 Biographical drama directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo Dicaprio, J ----- (5) 13 See picture clue: Rapper who had a hit with Written in the Stars, Tinie ------ (6)

14 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle with a red eye mask (7)

17 Action film series starring Bruce Willis (3,4)

19 Engineer in Thunderbirds (6) 20 Dr Tara Lewis in Criminal

Minds, ----- Tyler (5)

22 Olympian in Celebrity 5 Go

Barging, Tessa --------- (9)

24 Boy band formed in 2010,

One --------- (9)

25 Lucy Pargeter’s Emmerdale

role, ---- Dingle (4)

26 English actor who won Celebrity Masterchef in

2010, Lisa -------- (8)

DOWN

2 Oscar-winning star of Paper Moon, Tatum -’---- (1’4) 3 TV series with Robert Carlyle, Hamish ------- (7)

4 Comedy drama from 1999 starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Dame Judi Dench, ----------- in Love (11)

5 Sitcom starring Lee Mack,

Not ----- Out (5)

6 Young son of Stacey and

Kush in Eastenders (6)

7 Star of Elf and Anchorman, Will ------- (7)

10 2000 Jim Carrey comedy,

Me, Myself & ----- (5)

11 Classic sitcom starring Dame Patricia Routledge, Keeping Up ----------- (11)

15 Brendan O’carroll’s comedy

TV role, ----- Brown (5)

16 Welsh BBC newsreader,

Huw ------- (7)

18 Actor who won an Oscar for his role in 1989 film Rain Man, ------ Hoffman (6)

19 Classic TV western series that

starred Lorne Greene (7)

21 See picture clue: Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, ----Michelle Gellar (5)

23 Celebrity skating contest,

Dancing -- --- (2,3)