THE SUNDAY CRUSADER AND HIS SQUIRE The Crusader’s clues The Squire’s clues
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Maybe a sycophant gives shade (5) Senseless drive back from a plant (9)
Not getting wages, grasping pair alternatively started pension (15)
Perhaps a French tabloid has the scent (9) The audacity, beginning to speak! (5)
A German city centre lacks heart and soul (7) Great lover once married in a part of a forest (7) Rabbit on top of carrots - he’s mad! (7)
Heartless guy takes a composer seriously (7) Far side of room outspoken beast ridicules (5)
Scattered emus are happy to be okay (7,2) Close post that’s late redirected with no time to spare (2,3,4,6)
Aide taking uranium from safe after lead during bash (9)
Gluttony almost overwhelming British diver (5)
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Cheese and fish starter update (5)
They believe in magic water and fires, like before (7) Artist some foremen make tense (9)
Ace soldiers getting called to order... (7)
...get hurt besieging one on a day of victory (7)
Beasts with ambition back aboard tugs (5)
Inactivity guaranteed by a garland (7)
As before, count in good faith (9)
Cover from agitated cop men fool (9)
Insulting deals without much content (9) Abstemious wizard catches small twitch (7)
Cake crumbs inside some teabags? (3,4)
Awful gluttons beginning fast without losing face (7)
A flower and sweet to carry out (7)
Material taken to court before case’s conclusion (5)
Patty and Charlotte unloaded a gun (5)
Cryptic clues from our knight, and quick clues from his squire,
lead to the same answers in the Crusader’s Sunday joust
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ACROSS
1 Arbour (5)
4 Belladonna lily (9)
9 Failure to understand (15) 10 Perfume (9)
11 Dressing (5)
12 Intrinsic nature (7) 13 Radical (7)
15 Prattle (7)
18 In a solemn manner (7) 20 Derides (5)
22 Make the grade (7,2)
24 In the nick of time (2,3,4,6) 25 Personal assistant (9) 26 Loon-like bird (5)
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Short (5)
Witches (7) 17th-century Dutch painter (9)
Organise (7) Accomplish (7)
Pulls, jerks (5)
___ centre (7) Genuinely (9)
Encircle (9)
Speaking badly of (9) Austere (7)
Small alcohol-infused cake (3,4) Horrendous (7) Perform, do (7) Velvety leather (5) Component (5)