CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Feline eats limb and cheese (9)

6 Wife joins trendy parliamentary official (4) 10 Appropriate to scare fellow away (5)

11 Complex nitric compound gets devoured (9)

12 A closet designed for sugar (7)

13 End fuel negotiation as necessary (7) 14 Advance gold with lease for outside worker (13) 17 Eccentric forgiven total

– his choice is hard to predict (8,5)

21 Second hearing of flair termed backwards (7) 22 Paid to be comfortable (7) 24 Soldier is put in to sell off (9)

25 Isolated a role (5) 26 Enjoys basic accommodation (4) 27 Audibly quote prophet to tourist (9) DOWN 1 Be more indifferent and negligent (8)

2 Mother and soldier caught by sorcery (5) 3 Remote, strange old sound from the weather (14) 4 Obvious I have to overturn damage (7)

5 Bird article with one answer and she’s away with the fairies (7)

7 Chief develops rifts recklessly (9)

8 Father finds woman a dish (6)

9 Pamphlet follows biscuit and its route (9,5) 15 Appropriate notes on installation (9) 16 Believe, alternatively, he’s owed money (8) 18 Agrees time with companions (7)

19 Sent out to encourage something put by (4,3) 20 Journey too much to stand (6)

23 The French greeting gives permission (5)