THE SUNDAY CRUSADER AND HIS SQUIRE
The Crusader’s clues
ACROSS
1 Negligent lady divides
loot (5)
4 Wet day due, rat
prepared (9)
9 Cast from H.M.S.
Pinafore, perhaps (6,9) 10 Animals oversleep,
losing out (9)
11 A shirt not like a
gymslip, say (5)
12 View over river taken in by possibly succeeding halfback (7) 13 Developing smell of
sodium? (7)
15 Figure not back in front
lost (7)
18 Car’s second driver
somehow made it (7) 20 Adult male making a
blockhead walk (5) 22 Carry On film’s ending beat us - so bizarre! (4,5) 24 Stomach, heart and leg get the most attention (4,6,5) 25 Perhaps a fib about wine regions gutted soldiers (9)
26 Shrink from Dubai’s
capital, say (5)
DOWN
1 Raised post a group
found (3,2)
2 Sort of diminished gas
stove (7)
3 Pan back in the direction of a flapper being obsequious (9)
4 Chuck has work
italicised (7)
5 The top motive for
betrayal (7)
6 City backward old
defenders save (5)
7 Cadet some esteem has to
fall in (7)
8 Driven dunderhead
educated one for you (9) 12 Cool cat running with it’s
great (9)
14 Teacher speaking out leads to low grade being improved upon (9) 16 Writer well spoken of put
under arrest (7)
17 Hopeful native edges
around an empty pit (7) 18 States of America to
worry about (7)
19 Profane note from an
instrument (7)
21 Fish ten caught on board
stand out (5)
23 Fashion model heading
for runway on purpose (5)
Cryptic clues from our knight, and quick clues from his squire,
lead to the same answers in the Crusader’s Sunday joust
1
ACROSS
The Squire’s clues 1 Loose (5)
4 Sodden (9)
9 Jettisoned at sea (6,9) 10 Scaly anteaters (9) 11 Police or military jacket (5) 12 Emotion (7)
13 Budding (7)
15 Nine-sided shape (7) 18 Turned up (7)
20 Mosey (5)
22 Horse around (4,5)
24 Are the focus (4,6,5) 25 Charles I supporters (9) 26 Fear greatly (5)
DOWN
8 1 Frame (3,2)
2 Organise (7)
3 Being servile (to) (9) 4 Slanted (7)
5 Betrayal of country (7) 6 Capital of Morocco (5) 7 Apprentice (7) 8 Committed (9) 12 Tremendous (9) 14 Exceeded (9) 16 Vladimir ___, Russian
author (7) 17 Candidate (7) 18 Declares (7)
19 Break, flout (7)
21 Do well (5) 23 Tendency (5)