CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1 Newspaperman sends brides out (9) 6 Poet is excluded, we hear (4) 10 The best topping (5) 11 Daughter sees eccentric peer suit notoriety (9) 12 I am finished with old paint (7) 13 Time to walk like a goose? Nonsense (7) 14 Too manic about getting skinflint some sympathy (13) 17 Her prompt acne treatment brought happy resumption (13) 21 Pal runs carelessly into traffic jam (5-2)

22You and I left to arrive to a greeting (7) 24 Worried as police take pressure from a bishop (9) 25 Beneath French and German articles (5) 26 Late ordering the duck (4) 27 Scold agent, overturning her conclusion (9) DOWN 1 Brief to affect us a little bit in court (8) 2 Censor note and peel off (5) 3 National decisions concerning servants (8,6) 4 Time to notice European youngster (7) 5 Nile port, source of useful stone (7) 7 Sailor, nude, can organise a great deal (9) 8 Fades with the Spanish fuel (6) 9 Part of sentence dealing with family (8,6) 15 Cocktail to spoil Georgia and another woman (9) 16 He was unready there, led astray (8) 18 Agent has pear production to cover again (7) 19 Bully to mistake a flower (7)

20Rise of a perfume (6) 23 ‘Brave, Taking Top Off’ that is a classic song (5)