£500 Crossword

ACROSS

1 Paul -----, Chaser on ITV game show The Chase (5) 4 Anything Could Happen

singer, Ellie -------- (8) 6 Milly ----, Kirsty ‘Dotty’ Cotton in Eastenders (4) 7 Former The Tonight

Show host, Jay ---- (4) 8 See picture clue: Scottish comic, ----- Bridges (5)

9 -------- Theatre, ITV drama series that ran from 1956 to 1974 (8) 12 Ewan Mcgregor and Emily Blunt romcom from 2012, ------ ------in the Yemen (6,7)

15 Film starring Sir Michael Caine and Dame Julie Walters (9,4)

18 1985 hit by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin,

-------- Lives (8)

19 Katey -----, voices Leela in Futurama (5)

22 ---- Flynn Boyle, Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks (4) 23 Old American sci-fi series, Quantum ---- (4) 24 Tubular Bells musician, Mike -------- (8)

25 ----- Thompson, star of Thor: Love and Thunder (5)

DOWN

1 Dan -------, starred in ITV’S

Downton Abbey (7) 2 Model, ----- Campbell (5) 3 American folk-music icon, ---- Guthrie (4)

4 The Lord of the Rings role of Sir Ian Mckellen (7) 5 Series with Sarah Moore,

Money for ------- (7)

10 ----- Klum, supermodel and America’s Got

Talent judge (5)

11 2004 Julia Roberts film,

---- Lisa Smile (4)

13 See picture clue: Big

Little Lies and Jurassic Park star, ----- Dern (5) 14 The Twilight ----, youngadult book series by Stephenie Meyer (4)

15 ------- Flame, hit 1989 Bangles song (7)

16 Model daughter of

Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, ------- (7)

17 2002 romcom starring Reese Witherspoon,

Sweet Home ------- (7) 20 Movie with Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant and Halle Berry, Cloud ----- (5) 21 Angelina Jolie spy thriller from 2010 (4)

Solve the clues and rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out the name of a stand-up comedian (4,4). To enter, see below right. The winner gets £500. Usual rules apply (below).