CRUSADER CROSSWORD

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88833. Calls cost £1.50 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Texts cost £1.50 plus your standard network rate. Lines close at midnight tonight. Or send your grid containing the answer in the shaded squares by posting it to: Crusader Crossword, July 2, PO Box 12578, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BT. Entries must be postmarked by July 4 at the latest. SP: Spoke – 0333 202 3390. For any postal enquiries, call helpline number. extra day is given for postal entries during bank holidays.

The winner will be the first random correct entry drawn from all entry routes after the closing date of July 7. The Editor’s decision is final.

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ACROSS

1 Response about something done (8)

5 Neat tree (6)

10 French queen ordered one a treat in time (5,10)

11 Strange relic points to lie (7)

12 Worry about a single occasion with the navy (7)

13 Beautiful ring found in ravine by you and me (8)

15 Accurate performance by former partner (5)

18 Beam of light troubling earls (5)

20 One nun I’d upset with insinuation (8)

23 Neglect one on purpose (7)

25 Claimed damages after examination by a doctor (7)

26 A vicar is lent one unexpectedly for time in the armed forces (8,7)

27 Resist work with model (6)

28 Ambassador in commercial with payment for supporter (8)

DOWN

1 Comment on the subject of Mr Twain (6)

2 Terrible corrupt actor with debts (9)

3 Meeting rearranged when it’s pouring (7)

4 Turn, on cue, to make weight (5)

6 Writer with expert accepting new self-punishment (7)

7 Release relative missing the start (5)

8 Age of exotic tree, tiny (8)

9 For comics, an alternative shoe (8)

14 Eastern trio, lean and ragged (8)

16 Tot – one on Court 4 before end of game, habit-forming (9)

17 Bird on fire – first of ostriches (8)

19 For one with common sense supporting right university, it’s disastrous (7)

21 Some vendors expecting support (7) 22 Customer in Celt’s novel (6)

24 Exercise – initially see it at university (3-2)

25 Contemplated putting us in sea (5)