THE SUNDAY CRUSADER
ACROSS
1 Attic trouble
understood (5) 4 Weaponry that’s lowered
misses (9)
9 Angry cooking, perhaps?
(7,4,4)
10 Tousled BF dealt with
insecurity (4-5)
11 Live band back in the
pink (5)
12 Spread out for a dieter only partly consumed (7)
13 City healer needs
treatment (7)
15 Fool angry about rotten
lies (7)
18 Bill swears Rex dropped
charges (7)
20 Nova Scotia houses a
listener approaches (5) 22 It’s going to get tin and
amalgam (9) 24 Surprising dinner, though not rare
(4,2,3,6)
25 Lifeless hair stalls
negotiations (9)
26 Soft flanks of caribou
with short tail (5)
DOWN
1 Pipes black within a
day (5)
2 Cold cutlet eaten by a
kid (7)
3 Poor quality dirt mixed
with earth (5-4)
4 Copper taking back a
little fleece jacket (7)
5 A shirt and tie awfully
dirty (7)
6 Insect shapes partly
concealed (5)
7 It’s plant life, in the
main (7)
8 Terrific sign substitute
bumps (9)
12 Odd sort of aid, ten
thought (9)
14 Quirky sorceress returning
without a penny (9) 16 Mark possesses medium
level strength (7) 17 Radical triad’s ordered
around (7) 18 Unillustrated? That’s
natural (7)
19 Students upset by school
blunders (4-3)
21 Barge ahead of line,
earning angry look (5) 23 Pious legend strangely
heartless (5)
Cryptic clues from our knight, and quick clues from his squire,
lead to the same answers in the Crusader’s Sunday joust
ACROSS The Squire’s clues
DOWN
1 Unspoken (5)
4 Short naval swords (9) 9 Seething (7,4,4)
10 Lack of confidence (4-5) 11 Reside (5)
12 Emit (7)
13 City of eastern Germany (7) 15 Deceive (7)
18 Points the finger at (7) 20 Gets closer to (5) 22 Escorting and waiting
on (9)
24 Scarce (4,2,3,6) 25 Impasses (9) 26 Undemanding, easy (5) 1 Test ___ (5)
2 Refrigerated (7)
3 Inferior (5-4)
4 Lightweight anorak (7) 5 Sullied (7)
6 Plant louse (5)
7 Wrack, e.g. (7) 8 Protuberances (9) 12 Pondered (9)
14 Odd or unconventional (9) 16 Staying power (7) 17 Extreme (7)
18 Ingenuous (7)
19 Mistakes (4-3)
21 Frown, glower (5) 23 Deeply religious (5)