£500 Crossword
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1 2005 Tilda Swinton film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the -------- (8)
4 Postman Pat’s black-andwhite cat (4)
8 Survival TV series, Ray Mears’ --------- (9)
9 --------- and Treacle, TV play shown in 1987 (9) 12 1982 comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson (5)
13 Star of 1943’s Casablanca, ------ Rains (6)
14 Dame ------- Lipman, AKA Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street (7) 17 C4 TV show with Kevin Mccloud, Grand ------- (7) 19 See picture clue: -----Eilish, singer of 2020 hit No Time to Die (6)
20 1992 drama film, My Own Private ----- (5)
22 The Apprentice star (4,5) 24 Paddy Mcguinness’ ITV dating show (4,2,3)
25 Actor in 1970 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, ---- Cannon (4)
26 Starred as Ned Stark in Game of Thrones (4,4)
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2 Irene -----, character in the Sherlock Holmes stories (5)
3 Bing Crosby’s partner in the Road to... films (3,4) 4 British actor in several Carry On films (4,7)
5 See picture clue: ----Evans, Endeavour star (5) 6 Self ------, stage name of Rebecca Lucy Taylor (6) 7 Lead singer of British punk-rock band X-ray Spex, Poly ------- (7) 10 Rizzoli & -----, US crimedrama series featuring Angie Harmon (5) 11 Lawyer character in Breaking Bad played by Bob Odenkirk (4,7) 15 J.R. -----, Larry Hagman’s Dallas role (5)
16 Classic BBC1 game show hosted by Noel Edmonds, Telly ------- (7)
18 ------ Stone, star of 1992 film Basic Instinct (6) 19 ------- Boys, former US rap band (7)
21 Music-hall star and film actor, Arthur ----- (5)
23 Title of the 2020 finale of Hawaii Five-0 (5)