CRUSADER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hold back first of students at university meeting journalists (8) 5 Plant initially collected before performance by us (6) 10 Artist with violin on a card Ed designed (8,2,5) 11 Slightly wet blokes collecting ring first (7) 12 Right mature to make mistake (7) 13 Spouse welcoming lord, 51, with animals (8) 15 Defeated leader being dropped, having scoffed (5) 18 Farm managed by Conservative, originally huge (5) 20 New suit a man located (8) 23 Degree of loudness of one ringing instrument heard after a month (7) 25 One man seen after the German mocks (7) 26 Toff with the Spanish composition intrudes, we hear, to get award (5,5,5) 27 The Spanish primate carrying small pass (6) 28 First of women relaxed about learner having struggled (8)

DOWN

1 Gloomy single man losing heart (6) 2 Professional getting sight of something supplied (9) 3 Responded about a court journalist (7) 4 Southeast man’s means of transport (5) 6 Hostile Danish leader in a poem (7) 7 Doctrine revealed by European in portable shelter (5) 8 Joint found with chaps in street with load (8) 9 A Democrat – he gets payment from follower (8) 14 Offended eccentric, unlisted (8) 16 Exercise machine used when mild later, possibly (9) 17 Chapter about man, extremely capable, revealing belief (8) 19 Bachelor interrupting terrible slob – he limps (7) 21 A professional with mail almost getting to the point (7) 22 A forward reportedly getting rise (6) 24 Snake seen in Acapulco branch (5) 25 Interior design company featured in German article (5)