CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Gathering like this, spies left (6) 4 Model makes office worker tardy (8) 10 Number get in trouble with queen (7) 11 Engineers get contract free (7) 12 Eccentric used wok with a carrot top (5) 13 File thing away as social activity (9) 14 Legionary recreating minor ordeals (5,7) 18 Actor taking on law enforcer is very exceptional (5,7) 23 Poet has to admit point - he’s no tenant (9) 24 Set out to find record that’s expensive (5) 25 Thorn registered in predicament (7) 26 Shout about large love affair (7) 27 Profundity of river initially perplexes head (8) 28 Excellent suggestion at summit (6) DOWN 1 Slide towards conflict shown on Eastern pottery (8) 2 Pet joins a top stylist in burial chamber (8) 3 Horse in a right old difficulty (5) 5 Angry, need to work with duster (7) 6 College afterwards gets additive - a synthetic resin (9) 7 Two accounts, one on a shrub (6) 8 Former spouse cultivated tree in city (6) 9 Wild horse gets British fellow to join firm (6) 15 Successor gives new and old to dreadful fink (4,2,3) 16 Circling Pole in fog is a significant event (8) 17 Show appreciation for snare? Nonsense (8) 19 Park keeper joins Sunday team (7) 20 Hit by small lorry (6) 21 Sculpted a pig’s head in outbuilding (6) 22 Judge has pier demolished after hesitation (6) 24 Society - it’s a new secret police (5)