CRUSADER CROSSWORD
FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £100 CASH read down the letters in the highlighted squares to reveal the mystery word
ACROSS
1 Blameless head of organisation in pub with a small amount of money (8) 5 She’s including commercial for sunglasses (6) 10 Replacing gross seafood, Ken uses an expression of annoyance (3,8,4) 11 Cold member of the clergy beside frozen area finding crack (7) 12 Seemingly endless film seen with hesitation by Northern man (7) 13 Sack used by members for guns (8) 15 Southeast man having carried chair (5) 18 Group entering pub unchallenged (5) 20 Team taking woman’s hot additional food item (4,4) 23 No rubbish returned to Canadian city (7) 25 One being mentored having got peer confused (7) 26 Volunteers returning annoyed with objects, misunderstanding one another (2,5,8) 27 Number left in the outskirts of Torquay (6) 28 Wow – free ring found by royal in passage (8)
DOWN
1 Popular performance gripping fellow, actually (2,4) 2 Scandinavian in gear now out of place (9) 3 Frozen food about to be included in selection (4,3) 4 Prod Ed with gun accidentally (5) 6 Woman who entertains guests, a great number, on Eastern ship (7) 7 Sketched looking strained (5) 8 Southeast journalist left in Gateshead with young plant (8) 9 Poem included by socialist, backed up (8) 14 Peer’s son’s wrong answer (8) 16 Spread woman originally supplied for every second man (9) 17 Brat cast unexpectedly – that’s hard to understand (8) 19 Worker, old-fashioned, getting something given for free (7) 21 Dump salesperson turning up with device for administering liquid (7) 22 The French ship the queen found to be not as great (6) 24 Dog turning up with the man’s frill (5) 25 First to punish lout spoiling planet (5)