CRUSADER CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Impudence from defender about headgear (8) 5 Have a strong desire to find a tall structure (6) 10 All hats she sold I designed to be ancient (2,3,2,3,5) 11 Copper, quiet one, on stuffed pad (7) 12 General changes blow up (7) 13 Runaway using dry area with hesitation (8) 15 Some more belligerent mutineer (5) 18 Nick, not cold - hot (5) 20 Page about father, embarrassed, getting ready (8) 23 Salesperson, 51, about to get exact copy (7) 25 Lecturer getting small top with hesitation (7) 26 Officer finding parasites in post office with artist (6,9) 27 First to discover soil shortage (6) 28 Southeast man getting a smaller amount without pips (8)

DOWN

1 Limb of tree from British farm (6) 2 Funny Scot, fewer wrinkles (5,4) 3 I’d once ordered Eastern painkiller (7) 4 A royal boy revealing crime (5) 6 Academic finding chapter inside relating to the sun (7) 7 Lounger I’d left with hesitation (5) 8 Wind making festival extremely lousy (8) 9 Somehow see to her foot-shaped device (4,4) 14 Bug given to man extremely capable at Terpsichorean art (3,5) 16 Fragile holiday expert (9) 17 In time, salesperson with identification becomes bold (8) 19 Bob, for instance, accidentally hit a cur (7) 21 A man holding stake is encouraged in wrongdoing (7) 22 Vegetables for environmentalists (6) 24 Injured pal ok for dance (5) 25 Vocalist almost revealing burn (5)