CRUSADER CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Person delivering sermon about pain accepted by pair (8) 5 Rank of rushed detectives (6) 10 Dad’s birds in barn moved in small numbers (2,5,3,5) 11 It’s solved when it’s broken (7) 12 Generous party member (7) 13 Cheat with lure showing scorn (8) 15 Noblemen left among listeners (5) 18 A quiet royal - one left for a month (5) 20 French article about the German with silver - not old enough (5,3) 23 Jealous European with common sense, about 6 (7) 25 Make rough son care somehow (7) 26 Friendly reps making notes, possibly (2,8,5) 27 Small fresh pears in short supply (6) 28 Pale, the German journalist walked about aimlessly (8)

DOWN

1 Pair in the outskirts of Carlisle with royal (6) 2 Try to get a duo never out of place (9) 3 Game for insect (7) 4 Relieved, having stopped without leader (5) 6 Awfully bad lie about union leader loud enough to be heard (7) 7 One in cleaner seat (5) 8 Reveal woman’s conclusion (8) 9 Popular journalist going round apartment, blown up (8) 14 Mostly creamy food given to a king with a Greek dish (8) 16 Man first seen with royals welcoming a keeper of official records (9) 17 Very hungry bird initially observing us (8) 19 Feline, large one, on Eastern ship (7) 21 It’s criticised when cooked (7) 22 A French journalist going round America with surplus (6) 24 Way in through landscape (5) 25 Cheat on Georgia at dance (5)