CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD
WIN £100 CASH
ACROSS
1 Conclusion was obliged and provided (7) 5 Range makes firm fool with politician inside (7) 9 Feature one’s manor being demolished (5,4) 10 Students take first woman to be equal (5) 11 Having a will to try tea out (7) 12 Row about religious man – large or small thing (7) 13 College wise men, local but dull (13) 18 Presumptuous remark by Lewis and Harris, say, at statue site (7,6) 20 Guardian takes dog to a hill (7) 23 Lion treated injury – that shows relief (7) 25 Ogre improved wearing universal cosmetic (5) 26 State a qualification (9) 27 Poetic conclusion is as far as a bus goes (3-4) 28 Point rental out that’s everlasting (7)
DOWN
1 Volunteers pursue terribly rare mistakes (6) 2 Notes Frenchman quips about British anticlimax (4,5) 3 Money came first with Georgia (5) 4 Animal doctor with honour ready to be deployed (9) 5 Crack key on time (5) 6 Sensational play made moral characters (9) 7 Block of Bavarian villages (5) 8 Lads worked without a king – that is, on a wage (8) 14 Withdrawing with regard to celebration (2,7) 15 Lion scene rewritten to show bad manners (9) 16 Initiation to get a cooker (9) 17 A former vehicle included in individual orders (1,2,5) 19 Alto performed outside, not applicable without a key (6) 21 Visiting to have some drinks (5) 22 Gather Conservative was inside, in summary (5) 24 Racket is one solution (5)
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