CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Number of corpuscles is a

family matter (5,5)

6 Space reserved around tree

(4)

10 Settle for guns, leg being

broken (7)

11 Placate Frenchman, moving

folly around island (7)

12 Be informal and scold (5,4)

13 Spirit in lough, wandering

around (5)

14 Express disapproval,

playing it all together (5)

15 Dubious, accepts involvement including one student (9)

17 Ready, turn off to get

reduced fare (3,6)

20 In favour of espionage’s last

couple being fake (5)

21 Whole mural about a

primate (5)

23 Engineers paid and moved

on (9)

25 Suitable to take Spaniard

something to eat (7)

26 Bringing up fruit - good (7)

27 Country losing first points

to paradise (4)

28 Youngster has bother with

the French perfume (10)

DOWN

1 Located, like cot outside (5)

2 Lonely, put off - in a sumptuous way (9)

3 Biscuit pamphlet in one’s processing system (9,5)

4 Single, turning sour and hard (7)

5 Lacking quarry - European candidate (7)

7 City firm has an atmosphere (5)

8 Princess, say, depressed in the shade (5,4)

9 Escape first, as trembling behind old steps (6,2,6)

14 Catastrophe making boy object, returning greeting (5,4)

16 Carol rewriting sentence, finding word for seaweed (9)

18 Sadly true, and not assessed (7)

19 Sort out nothing around opening (7)

22 Come out, leaderless, and join (5)

24 Not analogue, lacking a large number (5)