THE SUNDAY CRUSADER AND HIS SQUIRE The Crusader’s clues

ACROSS

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String Mark and Charlie hoard (5)

Animals joining running yaks (7,2)

Distance to take piscine head (15)

10 Affair with a runner in a

rush (9)

11 Going round closer to traffic, get run over (5) Caregiver interrupting someone who says he’s a writer (7)

Expert catching a fish backward person freed (7)

Nordic king made a graduate homeless (7) Borders of diverse county or state (7) Animal pulls lead with ardour initially (5) Defiant president not altogether smart (9) Lovely churl and I put off a cop with sense (15) Unnecessary outburst about bareback rider’s core (9)

Vessels sheep are on start to sink (5)

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The way to establish strength (5)

Son there is one of hers, note (7)

It’s not Tom, Dick and Harry shut out! (9) Overcoat, in short, given to cooler thug (7) Mention of Bell’s original telephone (5,2)

Officer sides with a German I discharge (5) Guide beginning to shepherd another client (7)

Supporting structure for a bridge (9)

Bird that’s flown back into low wharf circling top of perch (9)

Receding ship has to get around it (9)

Fruit cut with saw and crushed (7)

An island route sounded a little dicey at first (7) Revolt spoken of in conversation (7)

Fatty diet half completed by a model (7)

Pale face of armed female knight (5)

Trip over pyjamas covering pants (5)

Cryptic clues from our knight, and quick clues from his squire,

lead to the same answers in the Crusader’s Sunday joust