CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Kitty follows - room for convenience ( 10)

6 Ask hoarsely for a file ( 4)

10 Social climber puts off painting ( 7)

11 Authoritarian fellow is cast out ( 7)

12 Make little of French granite construction ( 9)

13 Form of music party chap joined first ( 5)

14 Pretend iron is added to gin cocktail ( 5)

15 Happen to capture location ( 4,5)

17 Realigns a new course for people from North Africa ( 9)

20 It’s mad to follow the old monsters ( 5)

21 Film bud ( 5)

23 Nine ports ordered for sportsman ( 6,3)

25 Single sour concoction is difficult ( 7)

26 Being discussed is something to be sneezed at ( 2,5)

27 Still in the venture ( 4)

28 Catching terribly fine promises about heartless reduction ( 10)

DOWN

1 Was able to put complaint about union ( 5)

2 Agreeing in stages, wrong about name ( 9)

3 Defeat creation of a literary movement ( 4,10)

4 Respond, getting Turkey to withdraw ( 7)

5 Leaving summit in quiet period ( 3- 4)

7 Continental, like a Scot ( 5)

8 Upset press, not a sponsor ( 9)

9 Heavenly scholar finds psychiatrist so eccentric ( 14)

14 Tires, writing note about some paving ( 9)

16 Using a tin, finished old starter ( 9)

18 Trains a troublesome craftsman ( 7)

19 Risk- free, getting tan around capital ( 5,2)

22 Round bees, awfully fat ( 5)

24 Soldiers surrounded by huge signs ( 5)