CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Agent with huge energy finds relaxation (6)

4 Directions getting reporters round for coffee (8)

10 Eccentric American with

time inside? Sauce (7)

11 This writer organised sales

complaint (7)

12 Brief adjustment in dietary

requirement (5)

13 Relative moved remote a

short distance (9)

14 Lit sidetrack meandered

into national park (4,8)

18 Absence of clothes to be acceptable after celebration (8,4)

23 Goodwill period for a laugh - no money wasted (9)

24 Loud bird is delicate (5)

25 Vegetable and chips surprisingly containing sodium (7)

26 Warning from hooligan about nothing average (4,3)

27 Thoroughgoing record empty day in action (4-4)

28 Even broadcast to part of

Italy (6)

DOWN

1 Landslide makes some music decline (8)

2 Fish around bush, reassembling conveyance (4-4)

3 Form different heaps (5)

5 Deployed reams in

lesson (7)

6 My coracle turned out to

be the genuine article (4,5)

7 Leave son a gymnastic

manoeuvre (6)

8 Boys terrified about

seafood (6)

9 A professor is a handsome

youth (6)

15 Raid my compound to help

farm worker (9)

16 Fellow with hesitation taking a part - there’s an opening (8)

17 Transforming titles to

something sharp (8)

19 Redirected torch points to

foot (7)

20 Hang top of dress on

corner (6)

21 Pursued for being pure,

say (6)

22 Fashionable team,

imprisoned (6)

24 Ref wandered around a bit,

then stopped moving (5)