CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Make-up is a hit (4)

3 Sailor put title outside, around the surface (10) Appealing to reduce energy (4) Declared servant to have innate problem (10) Leaving article on the French tree – it’s free (3,3,5)

Rising when hypocrisy hides result (9) Asian old chap on island (5)

Church painting is a map (5)

Crone felt bananas would make a musical symbol (5,4)

Comic snored, sadly for a brief period (11)

Old truce negotiated gets spies in torment (10) Soldiers catch his second appearance (4) Husband farms out exterior – always gets malaria (5,5)

The woman takes nothing but footwear (4)

DOWN

1 Moving across, can’t be respected (10) Contrived if a critical solution is missing one constant (10)

A lofty conclusion, in any way (2,3)

Male headwear, brown, in part of New York (9) Quick instruction on how not to drive (5,6) Study time and damage (4) Milton’s first poem on fashion (4)

How buffet food travels precariously (4-2-5) Nothing about a European form of digital enhancement (4,6) Modesty, if fence did break (10) Opposed to creating initial queue on ridge (9) Strange and unacceptable, about to finish (5)

More amused, hiding some paper (4) Mark’s out of mascara (4)

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