£500 Crossword

ACROSS

1 Hugh ------, actor and Mock

the Week panellist (6) 5 Don Adams’ bumbling spy, ------- Smart (7)

7 ---- the Rainbow, song in 1940’s The Wizard of Oz (4) 8 Cult US comedy series with Alan Alda (1*1*1*1) 9 BBC daytime show, -----

to the Country (6)

10 Richard -------, had a double act with Stewart Lee (7) 13 Series starring Gemma Arterton, Black --------- (9) 16 U2 guitarist Dave Evans, also known as The ---- (4) 18 Goldie Hawn’s actor daughter, ---- Hudson (4) 19 Natasia ---------, plays Nadja in What We Do in the Shadows (9)

21 See picture clue: Irish comedian (2,5) 23 US bluegrass singer, Ricky ------ (6) 27 Hanna-barbera’s cartoon superhero, ---- Ant (4)

28 No ---- to Die, Bond movie from 2021 (4) 29 Japanese artist and wife of John Lennon (4,3)

30 The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon, ------ Reedus (6)

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2 Singer of 1979’s Oliver’s

Army, ----- Costello (5) 3 1979 Sally Field Oscarwinning film, ----- Rae (5) 4 Jaime -------, AKA The

Bionic Woman (7)

5 Jim Carrey movie from 1994, The ---- (4)

6 See picture clue: star of 2004 movie Mean

Girls, Lindsay ----- (5) 11 Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes movie from 2007, Ghost ----- (5) 12 Cartoon series with Daffy Duck, Looney ----- (5) 14 2006 Salma Hayek movie, --- the Dust (3) 15 Melanie Hill’s former

Coronation Street role,

----- Matthews (5)

17 The --- Has Landed, 1999 Robbie Williams album (3) 20 Maiden name of Linda, who wed Sir Paul Mccartney (7) 22 Mr -----, Pride and Prejudice character (5) 24 2008 Coen brothers film,

Burn ----- Reading (5) 25 Carly Hope in Emmerdale,

----- Atkinson (5)

26 Bus driver in cartoon series The Simpsons (4)

Solve the clues and rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out the name of an English comedian and actor (3,6). To enter, see below right. The winner gets £500. Usual rules apply (below).