CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sack might reveal

destructive capacity (9)

6 Opening sounds

complete (4)

10 Jelly, putting crawler in

charge (5)

11 Recital is awfully

lifelike (9)

12 Suppose yours truly is pursuing super arrangement (7)

13 Winter attire order isn’t

met (7)

14 Officer has spoken after weapon damaged crop (5,8)

17 He’s in charge on

track (13)

21 Mark is English, strangely

– I’d call round (7)

22 Time at home included pop’s turmoil generated by racket (7)

24 Brave lad worried about

current sort of phrase (9)

25 Not a soul puts conclusion

of fable after midday (2,3)

26 Rich drinker (4)

27 Fisherman’s actual

catch? (3,6)

DOWN

1 Tire European standard supporter (8)

2 Currency is right up on points (5)

3 Imagine turning all grey in exhibition hall (7,7)

4 How rare, upsetting celebrated fighter (3,4)

5 Notice a prom winding round in chart (4,3)

7 Regarding apartment without fences (2,3,4)

8 Tax assignment without hesitation (6)

9 Queen gets cleaner some cake (8,6)

15 Declines sharply in one’s corrupt drinking dens (9)

16 Rants about pet loose somewhere in church (8)

18 Foreigner organised tail on Scot (7)

19 Observe permit, a piece of paper (7)

20 Small stroke seen in bad handwriting (6)

23 Smell around river – it’s sharp (5)

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