CRUSADER CROSSWORD

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1 Avoid team having rejected favourites (8) 5 Divan used by the French male creating pandemonium (6) 10 Slap the principal before school punishment and become prominent in the news (3,3,9) 11 Mixes in swimming lesson (7) 12 Cost of writing instruments pocketed by former partner, Eastern (7) 13 Bill to back off and turn about to meet tenor originally taking to opera text (8) 15 Register carried back by forlorn employee (5) 18 With engineers, Northern, we returned to begin again (5) 20 Popular position, for example (8) 23 A royal competitor making appearance (7) 25 Instructor, extremely tense, getting pain by river (7) 26 First to get finished before Ron returned with officer and monarch’s representative (8,7) 27 I’d finally celebrate after the German mock (6) 28 Given soup with hesitation, small siblings (8)

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1 Half of them in school initially exposed plot (6) 2 Ten on diet disrupting school punishment (9) 3 Academic’s second choral arrangement (7) 4 Characteristic attitudes revealed by European with Thomas (5) 6 Better pics Lee developed (7) 7 Man getting hold of popular material (5) 8 Dog owner extremely likely to be skilful (8) 9 Hungry bird initially observing us (8) 14 A large number in it roll out (8) 16 Royal expert with husky, say – a fast animal (9) 17 A ringleader called Edward, organised (8) 19 With mixed ward, Eve was undecided (7) 21 A profit saint is opposed to (7) 22 Tools for boring doctor with troubles (6) 24 Wanderer – first to ruin bowling spell (5) 25 Row about girl’s first feline (5)