CRUSADER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Impertinence from defender, cold, with cap ( 8) 5 Powerful man in street with gang leader ( 6) 10 Comic edits scene about home economics ( 8,7) 11 Eastern cheat initially observing my frugality ( 7) 12 Oriental feast Ernie carried inside ( 7) 13 Journey taken by large fellow with card for driver, e. g ( 4,4) 15 Creep left in team ( 5) 18 One business arrangement that’s perfect ( 5) 20 Belief about socialist getting points, about 100 ( 8) 23 Commanding officers meeting head with fruit ( 7) 25 Unusual tree was from Jersey ( 7) 26 French one in portable shelter gets one on friend inadvertently ( 15) 27 Mostly kind, first office worker ( 6) 28 German bachelor with hesitation going by ship ( 8)

DOWN

1 Plan of expenditure for move before the end of August ( 6) 2 Male rocker’s opponent with ring in centre with naval officer ( 9) 3 Actors, bad, being abandoned ( 4- 3) 4 A male youth leader receives it from friendly relations ( 5) 6 Longs for new T- shirts ( 7) 7 Small quantity of uranium found inside on one occasion ( 5) 8 Strange guy seen embracing ringleader from island ( 8) 9 Collect expert going round ship with Eastern male ( 8) 14 Finding record about feline, popular ( 8) 16 Hot candle spoiling contest ( 9) 17 Disregard reduction ( 8) 19 Learner cuts in accidentally, gets medicine ( 7) 21 Seemingly endless film with hesitation given to Northern man ( 7) 22 Quiet man meeting the queen with petition ( 6) 24 Cold royal is quietly having potato snack ( 5) 25 Sneering man finally in team ( 5)