CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD
WIN £100 CASH
ACROSS
1 Small nose is active (4) 3 Car part reportedly bust - plead to renew (5,5) 9 Lake has supernatural sound (4) 10 Manage to find a reason to hit the coast (3,7) 11 Title is a sentence - look at the time (4,7) 15 Fictional beetle, detectives admitted, is a killer (9) 17 Form new door to be fixed outside (5) 18 Group finds patient has temperature (5) 19 Scandal to follow rudimentary path (4,5) 20 I will trust oar has been thrown into drawer (11) 24 Salesman with lots to deal with (10) 25 Valley within jungle nation (4) 26 Rely on working to get recruited, with no real hope (10) 27 Ready, keep surrounding embankment (4)
DOWN
1 Bombards with wine, producing mental disorder (5,5) 2 A frontier’s running around some land (10) 4 Got up, having union to galvanise (5) 5 Marsupial in arable oak variety (5,4) 6 Criminal for every favourite traitor to get gold (11) 7 Note on strange instrument (4) 8 Cover round pool (4) 12 Pressure to get grain, choosing illegal practice (5-6) 13 Anyplace to carry out a short drama (3-3,4) 14 Ridicule zero scope of ornamental plant (4,6) 16 Laziness at home once led to ruin (9) 21 Second duck is a bargain (5) 22 Blonde entertainment (4) 23 Performs part of the bible (4)
FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £100 CASH read down the letters in the highlighted squares to reveal the mystery word.
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LAST FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1All the best, 6 ASBO, 10 Adverse, 11Gravest, 12 Epicentre, 13 Terse, 14 Smith, 15 Extradite, 17 Nursemaid, 20 Tepid, 21Pasta, 23 Rapacious, 25 Patella, 26 Sapling, 27 Rare, 28 Dead weight. down: 1Agape, 2 Lavoisier, 3 Horseshoe Falls, 4 Breathe, 5 Segment, 7 Sneer, 8 On the mend, 9 Past participle, 14 Sandpaper, 16 Improving, 18 Air base, 19 Deposed, 22 Sitar, 24 Sight. Prizeword: Report