CRUSADeR CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Journalist with it interrupts friend to contemplate (8)

5 Moves for periods of work(6)

10 Experience pain without saying anything when US fencer flies in excitedly (6,2,7) 11 Building collapses, deficient without books (7)

12 I fool one man first(7) 13 Stun gent moving metal (8) 15 Initially great idea recording tall horse’s circumference (5) 18 A couple of times one Conservative used loft (5) 20 Mainly going round Delaware in a humble manner (8)

23 Shorten dog story, say (7)

25 Hot thug’s strange idea (7)

26 Local left in charge getting parts torn out of buses and trains (6,9)

27 Number I catch inNew York(6)

28 A mongrel interrupting the

French game (8)

DOWN

1 Male teacher –a dog owner (6) 2 Tough woman, very loud one, with sect (9)

3 Meet up in Gates h e a d when it’s raining (7)

4 Initially try walking on frozen area a couple of times (5) 6 Assisting with portion of food (7)

7 Amusing soldier wanting mushrooms (5)

8 Furtive, Nick gets most of the money, finally (8)

9 It’s allocated when autographed (8) 14 Pattern used by office worker after the usual time (8)

16 I lose rug I designed to be sacred (9)

17 With impertinence, criticize cooking vessel (8) 19 Chapter on a disturbance involving horse-drawn vehicle (7)

21 Second page on mostly kind patron(7)

22 University in country providing sculpture (6)

24 Bird mug –popular (5)

25 From Tahiti, a rare jewelled

headdress (5)