CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD
WIN £100 CASH
ACROSS
1 A month to work on a mollusc (7) 5 Classify punctuation mark (7) 9 Weeks torn apart during struggle (9) 10 Old king in a jumble, a tiny bit (5) 11 Computer images show impudence in carriage (4,3) 12 Family with daughter set out to be most generous (7) 13 Stop arguing, eager for fetid stew (5,2,6) 18 Old writer rewrites feral epic – it generates heat (4,9) 20 Volunteers soldier to remove last monkey (7) 23 Republican bile is awful and ridiculous (7) 25 Mad about a new promoter (5) 26 Pass, to each running around, some confectionery (9) 27 Code is cracked at English bishop’s place (7) 28 Finished with firm being made cryptic (7)
DOWN
1 Leaving diamonds in bureau (6) 2 Conclude insect contains sodium (9) 3 Father also included a bear (5) 4 Sense prophet is a tourist (9) 5 Graduate returning equipment for dyeing process (5) 6 Again, rent out some land (9) 7 King and knight get greeting card (5) 8 Medicine transported in cutter (8) 14 Mention free broadcast about new church (9) 15 Prepared no supper, getting nothing deliberately (2,7) 16 Guitar part to worry directors (9) 17 Poet has a toy fixed in construction site (8) 19 The story of the foot? (6) 21 Mother gets doctor with old routine (5) 22 Mother-of-pearl can trouble engineers (5) 24 Current cost spirals around, but he doesn’t complain (5)
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