CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD
FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £100 CASH read down the letters in the highlighted squares to reveal the mystery word.
ACROSS
1 Wise man gives school a lot of time (4) 3 Chap visits one city, then another (10) 9 European barrier to Dutch cheese (4) 10 Write letters to be in harmony (10) 11 Wild pike gunning for Antarctic inhabitant (4,7) 15 Naturally getting fellow diverted (3,6) 17 Furious buccaneer loses head (5) 18 Stick to personnel (5) 19 A student in a coat, travelling an autonomous part of Spain (9) 20 Niece zooms around to get variable, cheap version (7,4) 24 Finished getting chauffeured, having worked too hard (10) 25 Hardly fast food, say (4) 26 Gather prisoner took fellow wrong tea (10) 27 Unpleasant child became British traitor (4)
DOWN
1 Takes out accommodation and restaurant (5,5) 2 Part of the house leaves relative unexcited (6,4) 4 Fruit can be a painful affliction (5) 5 Fat crop managed to turn fast (9) 6 It’s seen to upset friend, in a nutshell (11) 7 Accepted as excessively kind, initially (4) 8 Reportedly regretted being impolite (4) 12 He checks evidence leading to lecturer (11) 13 Medication is a nuisance to assassin (10) 14 Degradation of keys to cellar (10) 16 Calculating judgement (9) 21 Dog doesn’t start on time, that’s obvious (5) 22 Actor cavorting with a neck ornament (4) 23 Incline to be thin (4)
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LAST FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1 Supergrass, 6 Step, 10 Disband, 11 Revenue, 12 Eliminate, 13 Ruche, 14 Wring, 15 Titillate, 17 Intellect, 20 Bidet, 21 Tacos, 23 Rearrange, 25 Iciness, 26 Astride, 27 Espy, 28 Fastidious. DOWN: 1 Sedge, 2 Pessimist, 3 Reading glasses, 4 Radiant, 5 Serpent, 7 Tunic, 8 Precedent, 9 Overelaborated, 14 Waistline, 16 Andantino, 18 Eurasia, 19 Teacart, 22 Chimp, 24 Evens. Prizeword: Print