CRUSADER CROSSWORD

FOR YOUR CHANCe TO WIN £100 CASH read down the letters in the highlighted squares to reveal the mystery word

ACROSS

1 Comic verse involving fruit supplied by man (8)

5 First to get rubbish to cave (6)

10 Cheat, Greg, reeled, spoiling contest (5-6,4)

11 Found travel document backwards during the previous night – that’s avoiding the issue (7)

12 Red mark on permit (7)

13 For Gaul, e.g., an alternative to French, for example (8) 15 Deceive royal taken in by check (5)

18 Throw out 100 found on board European plane (5)

20 Ice lad crushed with extremely creamy expensive food (8) 23 Engineers initially lifting one woman with ease (7) 25 Sheep ensnared by matted pelt will run over (7) 26 Parasites in post office swindle and knife the French officer (6,9)

27 Arsenic Kelly used to conceal another element (6) 28 Vehicle about to be found in small city? Hardly (8)

DOWN

1 Refuse group of offspring (6) 2 Male with member, a boy, initially eating citrus fruit preserve (9) 3 Staggering call about fish (7) 4 Thin pancake giving cold salesperson energy (5) 6 Beaming worker after damaging raid (7)

7 Be losing track (5)

8 It’s about Nick’s pass (8) 9 Urges he will follow with hard covering (8)

14 Group of spectators due a nice sort (8)

16 Trendy head covering given to expert, helpless (9) 17 Accidentally trip near reptile (8) 19 Syrup making cat reel drunkenly (7)

21 Part of book man finally bought with hesitation (7) 22 Unorthodox belief in this place’s revealed before end of play (6)

24 Cilla’s unusual shrub (5)

25 The first coin got wasted on a

pick-me-up (5)