CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD
WIN £100 CASH
ACROSS
1 Serenade the French, being unattached (6) 4 Malicious to show contempt at fuel wastage (8) 10 Render a dressing (7) 11 Use gun and turn to hospital department for salve (7) 12 Rinse out sticky substance (5) 13 Office worker has lock to siren (9) 14 Foreign articles on power being managed (5,7) 18 Setting thief on over-actor (5-7) 23 Strange date sadly turned away (9) 24 Well done for getting a coded letter (5) 25 Increase at university wonderful (7) 26 Roman official song about a bone (7) 27 Lead door constructed for place of fabulous wealth (2,6) 28 Show about meat (6)
DOWN
1 Policeman finds insect that’s immune to antibiotics (8) 2 Close to team where the passenger sits (8) 3 City can produce language (5) 5 Go down to see excellent police force (7) 6 Poet right about circus equipment (9) 7 Tentative proposal to get an antenna (6) 8 Left a trial to get most recent news (6) 9 Rubbish taken to cave (6) 15 Storyteller working near court (9) 16 Leap about - certain to be fun (8) 17 Genuine wild boar starts living in the trees (8) 19 Irritated by plant on the day (7) 20 Seated, eccentric but calm (6) 21 Grown-up friend going round ancient city (6) 22 Failed to make contact in fog, say (6) 24 Cheese holds new solution (5)
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