CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chairs sat around, providing relief ( 9)

6 Air Force on a return, a

long way off ( 4)

10 Put off, having left one

flower ( 5)

11 Not owning about the

French backing down ( 9)

12 Forgiving fellow one to

ten changes ( 7)

13 Notice errand boy

showing amount lost ( 7)

14 European males confused

points in complaint ( 6,7)

17 Relative yearns to include

support for insect ( 5- 8)

21 Stick out as a piece of

work ( 7)

22 The first messenger with

nothing but fruit ( 7)

24 Getting stone from victim

in front of gendarme ( 9)

25 Person from the Middle East is returning carrying gold and diamonds ( 5)

26 I would, for the audience,

get seen ( 4)

27 Brown headgear fellow put back- to- front, found in New York ( 9)

DOWN

1 Play record inside after church study ( 8)

2 Working a lot with new

nail ( 5)

3 Flight described in

rhyme ( 6,3,5)

4 Play guitar at middle

level ( 7)

5 Spreading lies is a part of

Europe ( 7)

7 Stew as car is ordered -

son is in charge ( 9)

8 Regretted including

horse? Tough ( 6)

9 Information ignites a malfunction for scholars ( 14)

15 Medium greeting from

communicator ( 5,4)

16 Notes played by Scot for

European ( 8)

18 Unknown mongrel back, having registered iodine and a metal ( 7)

19 A month in the past, name

a shape ( 7)

20 Drop a question that conceals something hard to understand ( 6)

23 Virtuous twist - time to

explode ( 5)