CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Important journalist is specialised ( 7)

5 Bother endlessly about

people in county ( 7)

9 Mediate desperately around ship for a cup of coffee ( 9)

10 Regret including old and

new city ( 5)

11 More certain at home before

he’s got it covered ( 7)

12 Sensible and quietly

discourteous books ( 7)

13 Claim tactic in revision is

disappointing ( 13)

18 Took a mouthful of grains with parts of oddments ( 4,3,6)

20 Cites problem about the

French being flexible ( 7)

23 Stop serpent before the

top of the road ( 7)

25 Allow first directions to be

removed, and heading ( 5)

26 Look again and check

details on time ( 9)

27 Excellent return after a ruse

negotiated some land ( 7)

28 Irregular fellow capturing

traitor ( 7)

DOWN

1 Crazy, getting free capital ( 6) 2 Leaps on sharp way to get going ( 4- 5)

3 Right to root out something

that turns ( 5)

4 Did swallow small courtesy,

having fallen out of favour ( 9)

5 Clean front of school and

get upset ( 5)

6 Claim four changes become

predictable ( 9)

7 Love worrying about

shrub’s fourth seed ( 5)

8 Family has energy and twitches with some chemistry ( 8)

14 Characteristic, reporters removing leader and double- crosser ( 9)

15 I am at it – sadly, I have to

be unoriginal ( 9)

16 Trial meant adjusting will ( 9)

17 Sailor posted notes, but

he’s not there ( 8)

19 Some electricity is

unchanged ( 6)

21 Change reported in table ( 5)

22 Roughly hidden by hypochondriac, rich and backward ( 5)

24 Exhibitionist puts pressure

on rose arrangement ( 5)