CRUSADER CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Woman’s display leading to confusion (8) 5 Busy, the man in charge going round Connecticut (6) 10 Pastry taken from the cool car Alice moved (9,6) 11 One interrupting cattle breaking decorative framework (7) 12 A father with house next to a river used by Native American tribe (7) 13 Given a drug, the corrupt family member (8) 15 Additional part of complex transcript (5) 18 Creek popular with the French tourists originally (5) 20 Socialist confronted when ashamed (3-5) 23 Interior parts of pub beside a road, small (7) 25 Money from principal city (7) 26 Volunteers returning before end taking lodgings very near together (2,5,8) 27 Agreement to deal with youth leader (6) 28 Intention revealed by first of kids not returning floating organisms (8)

DOWN

1 One introduced to medic the French found to be submissive (6) 2 Deficit, small, revealed before autumn (9) 3 Call about ten teenagers initially causing a disturbance (7) 4 Some saw a rebel conscious (5) 6 Area surrounded by foreign territory with clan Eve confused (7) 7 Woman getting hold of one headdress (5) 8 Officer upsetting poor Carl (8) 9 It’s mended for couple in plant (8) 14 Hothead inside, wrecked and defeated (8) 16 Mate injured in Trent needing therapy (9) 17 Activist, male one, left it with worker (8) 19 Eject number of people attending (7) 21 For sprain I ordered painkiller (7) 22 Name of woman, 51, interrupting a boy (6) 24 Recess is located in panic here (5) 25 Pitiless Conservative, large, admitting regret (5)