CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Start singer without Mahler’s fourth (6)

Get same problem with resistance gauge (3,5) Further performance shows agent join mutiny (7) Virginia provides tea for faintness (7)

12 Almost bisect a sweet (5)

13 Policeman at home with vocal ghost (9) Unaffected by instruction – that’s how it should be (7,5) Oscillating support – front had collapsed (4,3,5) Somehow, Eric daily made something edible (4,5) Heard fireplace is wonderful (5)

25 Ends in better miniature (7)

26 Set out a room like this in a loving way (7) Birthright wasted their time (8)

Solved clue about unknown, minute school (6)

DOWN

1 Distant, married with husband – also a labourer (8)

Before staff is accepting object, I am rude (8)

3 Feature a country (5)

5 He recommends a drive’s rebuilt (7)

National symbol upsetting female pal (5,4) Reliable, at last, and out of practice (6)

Sorry about including a form of devotion (6) Breakfast reported in instalments (6) Gather objective is to assign again (9) Leave, taking regrets, finding this writer horrid (8) Mooch around, having art performed in communication centre (4,4) Monarch gets terrible lip from author (7)

20 Usual woman left (6)

21 Gag pursues wife, poor thing (6)

He makes the point, as twenty run (6)

Praise for log transported by railway (5)