CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Thus get new breed settled down (7) 5 Unfortunately rode bad travelling surface (7) 9 Dud life is improved if made liquid (9) 10 Overemotional announcer (5) 11 Hurry to get new bib that’s awful (7) 12 Strange rustle gets fellow calm (7) 13 Puts ironic top away, it’s exploitative (13) 18 Having been judged, foreign articles join other words (5,8) 20 Tree around university becomes well-liked (7) 23 Des runs off in an improper state (7) 25 Betting on losing first three items of jewellery (5) 26 Note I have to alter our deportment (9) 27 Piles on trouble for foreign character (7) 28 Her tidy arrangement appears agitated (7)

DOWN

1 Expedition reassessed as fair (6) 2 Aristocrat gets depressed by family (4,5) 3 Spoke repeatedly of raid carried out at one (5) 4 Daughter is on formal indictment, getting release (9) 5 Navigation aid that looks both ways (5) 6 Elevation shows entrance round in exterior (9) 7 Concise instructions (5) 8 Cider let drunk get in poor condition (8) 14 US law worker and soldier join the French girl (9) 15 International group gets moved, but not consumed (9) 16 Hence other free broadcast (9) 17 Telegram has university student parking to blame (8) 19 A wandering cat is missing (6) 21 Snoops get award, by the sound of it (5) 22 Endlessly boring about bird (5) 24 Four bring Dorothy round a piece of turf (5)