CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Composer holds key to American deity (7) 5 A brie is sent to part of Asia (7) 9 Mint left omen about ointment (5,4) 10 Draw on the Spanish cloth (5) 11 Giant pig gets tail back (7) 12 Friend more excited by regional capital (7) 13 Round bench, starts to get daily report (5,8) 18 Time to concentrate observation on bridge (9,4) 20 Novice at home cuts out medicine (7) 23 Radish tip is the only snack (7) 25 He predicts bringing gold rug back (5) 26 Keeping away from a cane construction behind empty space (9) 27 Foreign character to record wild lions (7) 28 Thanks soldier, removing last monkey (7)

DOWN

1 Strange bulge on a whale (6) 2 Involved getting firm with politician – permissible (9) 3 Husband brought woman back a dye (5) 4 The gaps develop and it turns into food (9) 5 Give an outline as problem increased (3,2) 6 Limit on drink that must be removed (9) 7 Argumentative sportsman (5) 8 Everyone hides, having nothing that animals are on (3,5) 14 A nun – ultra eccentric and abnormal (9) 15 Target Tom’s composition that’s nearest the heart (9) 16 Laird to learn about getting depressed (9) 17 Willing, after dance, to have squash, say (4,4) 19 Poles always include a river (6) 21 Drink in snug, bursting with energy (5) 22 Executed last of orders with broken nail (5) 24 Points to mud around plant (5)