CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 About to demand quantity of ale (4)

3 Race to make patio shine out (10)

9 Negative response on average recess (4) 10 Westerner gets monarchs in trouble (10)

11 Look – I would back avian migration in part of Europe (11)

15 Bother navy chaps with their first decoration (9) 17 Alternatively charge to see some stars (5)

18 Fruit that’s round, as it happens (5)

19 Adore wandering around city travel centre (9)

20Considered to be intentional on the day (11) 24 Reportedly entirely relative to the pope (4,6)

25 Food for a youngster (4) 26 Intelligence of a jockey? (5,5) 27 Present during the recording (4)

DOWN

1 Inca’s terribly important constellation (5,5) 2 Addict has coil tangled around spring (10) 4 Move north – that’s sharp (5)

5 Pioneer at home gets torn away, incubating eggs (9) 6 Stop sending a large book as a way to pay (6,5) 7 Force Mary to change (4) 8 Sensible report of European river (4)

12 Author negotiated deadline with enemy (6,5) 13 Trinkets’ true job – working with his heart, that is (10) 14 Cracking a rune on broken blade? It’s illegible (10) 16 Record permit to take gold with the hollow insignia (9) 21 Consecrate bishop? Not so much (5)

22 Former ruler has rebuilt hospital (4) 23 Indistinctly come out with an insult (4)