CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Complete veneer (6)

4 Embarrassed follower

joins his order (8)

10 Remain running after a

country (7)

11 Operate on fellow

labourer (7)

12 Difficult question for an

exhibitionist (5)

13 Guide sees variant go

wrong (9)

14 Body of water is better

after leak is fixed (4,8)

18 Pause to bury

assignment (12)

23 Swindler getting terribly posh? That’s an unkind remark (5,4)

24 Astonished by a torn

page (5)

25 Student set up tent outside, being prevented from driving (7)

26 Describe former

currency (7)

27 Criticise scare about

organ (8)

28 Shooting star breaking

remote (6)

DOWN 1

Weary European is a standard supporter (8)

2 Identify benefit – it has the

same title (8)

3 Arson involved

echolocation (5)

5 Question always,

nevertheless (7)

6 English chap promises to be

horrible (9)

7 Prisoner at home,

assembling team (6)

8 Keen for first character to

leave country (6)

9 Short sleep can’t alter a

pressure (6)

15 Bird is a beach musician (9)

16 Left soldier twisting a true

knot in tight cord (8)

17 Cause female, say, to follow

directions (8)

19 Heard about record before

shrub (7)

20 Count as substance (6)

21 Diamonds reaching limit in

cold expanse (3,3)

22 Hold date – terribly

fashionable (6)

24 Politician in drink is quite

enough (5)