£500 Crossword

ACROSS

1 Ciarán -----, actor who played Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones (5) 4 Top Gear co-presenter, Freddie -------- (8) 6 Presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live, Simon ---- (4) 7 The Handmaid’s ----, dystopian TV series with Elisabeth Moss (4) 8 ----- Packham, presenter of nature shows such as BBC2’S Springwatch (5) 9 1993 Demi Moore film, -------- Proposal (8) 12 Sian ----- --------, Welsh star of Hidden (5-8) 15 Consumer-affairs show on BBC1 with Angela Rippon (3-3,7) 18 Nine Million --------, Katie Melua hit from 2005 (8) 19 See picture clue: Vanessa -----, English TV and radio presenter (5) 22 ---- Brothers, Will Ferrell movie from 2008 (4) 23 1996 horror film, From ---- till Dawn (4) 24 Old kids’ TV show, MultiColoured ---- ---- (4,4) 25 1990 action film, Teenage Mutant ----- Turtles (5)

DOWN

1 Star of Melrose Place, ------- Locklear (7) 2 ----- Campbell, British supermodel (5) 3 Hollywood actor and comedian, ---- Rogen (4) 4 Federico -------, Italian film-maker (7) 5 See picture clue: Ralph -------, actor who played Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films (7) 10 Jenna Coleman’s Doctor Who role, ----- (5) 11 Journalist and ex-team captain on Shooting Stars, Will ---- (4) 13 1989 River Phoenix film, Running on ----- (5) 14 Erica Durance’s Smallville role, ---- Lane (4) 15 Song from The Wizard of Oz, Over the ------- (7) 16 1956 film starring Marilyn Monroe (3,4) 17 ------- Demetriou, plays Nadja in BBC2’S What We Do in the Shadows (7) 20 Kevin -----, actor who played Sergeant Fisher in 2007’s Hot Fuzz (5) 21 ---- Season, animated movie from 2006 (4)

Solve the clues and rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out an English soap actor (5,5). To enter, see below right. The winner gets £500. Usual rules apply (below).