CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hide the first set, ruining audition (6,4) 6 Aristocrat leaving, after time (4) 10 Old worker gets nice work (7) 11 Scrap occasion for some music (7) 12 Writer to entice form of remorse (9) 13 Reporters insist (5) 14 Money for large animal (5) 15 Roles idly played like a trooper (9) 17 Need tulip cultivation in abundance (9) 20 Plainsong note from men worried about European Union (5) 21 Terribly calm about one allegation (5) 23 He leaves Don’s brace out (9) 25 Nothing to transport in a musical item (7) 26 Artist runs into school to get food allowance (7) 27 Last order for sailor (4) 28 Maligned an unruly star (7,3)

DOWN

1 Overwhelm points with current unit (5) 2 Square relic, once delivered (9) 3 Ironic cellmate sent communication (10,4) 4 Somehow attunes to disease (7) 5 A ruler’s plan is dreamlike (7) 7 Fruit that’s round, as it happens (5) 8 Inexpensive fashion for swimming (9) 9 African bed not wrapped in material (8,6) 14 Ordering a carp promises to be greedy (9) 16 Mourn accident, getting word about nematode (9) 18 Oblivious to international group taking a battle east (7) 19 Made certain positive conclusion went out (7) 22 Use a shroud, say (5) 24 Rinse out sticky tree substance (5)