Double crossword
ACROSS
1. Long-time star of comedy show 30 Rock, now taking up other interests (4,7)
9. Answers to the early ‘Millionaire’ questions are usually pretty ------- (easy) (7)
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Hide Ad10. Each new video recording would ----- (delete) an old one (5)
11. --- Man Out, a star part for James Mason in 1946 (3)
13. Victor Meldrew was always able to make a great -- - -- (fuss) about nothing much (2-2)
16. David Attenborough presented ---- On Earth (4)
17. Paul Hogan was very fond of the amber one (6)
18. Death on the ----, a Poirot story, with Peter Ustinov (4)
20. A ---- (gorgeous group) of girls in full flight usually signed off the Benny Hill show (4)
21. Remington ------, con-man detective (6)
22. Where Ronnie Barker did Porridge (4)
23. Three musicians or singers (4)
25. Powerful studio light (3)
28. A name change, in crime dramas (5)
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Hide Ad29. The Teletubbies seem ------- (adorable) to many kids (7)
30. This 1999 BBC 1 serial concerned four noblewomen, with Sian Phillips and Diana Quick among the stars (11)
DOWN
2. People who ----- in earlier times appear in TV costume dramas (5)
3. Phil, comic and impersonator who had his own show in the 1990s (4)
4. Errol Flynn starred in The Sun ---- Rises (4)
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Hide Ad5. TV cameras tend to reveal if an actor’s hair is ---- (tinted) or not (4)
6. Alan Yentob presented the BBC arts magazine programme ------- (7)
7. Some ----------- (European) original language material tends to appear late at night (11)
8. He is Middle East editor for the BBC (6,5)
12. Lovejoy was a dodgy secondhand goods ------ (trader) (6)
14. Annette Crosbie had --- Foot In The Grave (3)
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Hide Ad15. Usually the contestant who is ------ (sharper) will come through in quiz programmes (6)
19. At the Lotto draw, some viewers are just ------- (more fortunate) than others (7)
20. TV racing programmes may help some to lay a --- (3)
24. Craig Charles, among others, presented BBC 2’s ----- Wars (5)
25. On Mastermind, John Humphrys ---- questions like Magnus Magnusson used to put (4)
26. Ms Laine, singer with exceptionally wide range (4)
27. John Alderton starred in ITV’s For---- Green (4)
Last week’s solutions
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