CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Five diamonds cause wicked behaviour (4)

3 Cricket venue takes position in the White House (4,6)

9 Mean to change a handle (4)

10 Recurrent joke on track? (7,3)

11 Considered greeting to show cerebral output (7,4)

15 Outline organised tour in store (9)

17 Slow down in intermission, say (5)

18 Kind about new explosive sound (5)

19 Took back land surrounded by grass (9)

20Ordinary members are disgusting, also lifechanging (4,3,4)

24 Peer at racist or assembly (10)

25 Bribe stopper (4)

26 Eddy’s lever should be used, by rights (10) 27 Skilful pottery, not large (4)

DOWN

1 Bag an example of conceit (6,4) 2 Green space used by teaching staff (6,4) 4 Jump over a roof (5) 5 Come down on a fellow dealer (4,5) 6 Directors first identify part of violin (11) 7 I leave to pursue a villain (4) 8 Hence in another goal (4) 12 Unnamed author of horror stories (11) 13 Very little salt used to start – just in time (4-6) 14 Late, reported delay as a burden (4,6) 16 Ceaseless, the French story (9) 21 Use a shroud, say (5) 22 Husband also gets help (4) 23 Lack a young woman (4)