CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 The sort to use a machine to write (4) 3 Go round to get key and cut vermin out (10) 9 Search for an image (4) 10 Desire silt to be sorted and cleaned (10) 11 Press cut Iran out of political division (4,7) 15 Large deli embellished with balconies (9) 17 Mob to collect report (5) 18 Wrong fool on right level (5) 19 Soldier gets the French girl an assistant (9)

20Instrument, played sharp, affects orchid (11)

24Resemblance rips Monaco apart (10) 25Fancy another having colour (4) 26 Turned all red, then, when absorbed (10) 27 Wager with a foreign character (4) WIN £100 CASH DOWN 1 Chastisement is both instructive and unacceptable (7,3) 2 Hold fop too worriedly in bright light (10) 4 Bury in the hinterlands (5) 5 Carried no new flavouring (9) 6 Sad to see clean limo driven around church (11) 7 Pleased with relaxation (4) 8 Reportedly connected to sea changes (4) 12 Deal with pollution to remove tension (5,3,3) 13 Caveman organised dog lottery (10) 14 Two women manufacture drug (10) 16 One Frenchman finds harmonic fair (9) 21 School to manage range (5) 22Bachelor’s pain (4) 23 Give out the wrong time (4)