THE SUNDAY CRUSADER The Squire’s clues
The Crusader’s clues
ACROSS
1 Input left for second
god (5)
4 Oilmen let off hide
oil (9)
9 Fish setback in high water affected a ship (5,5,5)
10 Stupider drunk experienced initial shame (9)
11 Essay partly about a film
star (5)
12 Most implausible story about long street made short (7)
13 Regret admitting what starts beacons glowing (7)
15 Extra increase made
sense (5,2)
18 Note on Persia produced
gloom (7)
20 Founders offend
heartless kids (5) 22 Gifts from loud sort of
singer (9)
24 Reason Bulgaria’s reformed periodically (2,1,7,5)
25 Plant ties with motel,
oddly (9)
26 Message about fruit with
a core (5)
DOWN
1 Old post pinhead called
for (5)
2 Messed-up lie nuts
implement (7) 3 Recovering ring last,
correct? (2,3,4)
4 Weary old American in
headgear (7)
5 Meat loaf mostly rotten
food (7)
6 Remains girl holds back
from taxidermist (5) 7 Shifty deviant vies with a
girl first (7)
8 Escort wanting
favour (4,5)
12 Adrift on rafts, naval
soldiers change (9) 14 Low face of mountain
surprising abseiler (9) 16 No replies, perhaps (7) 17 Something made for a
passage (7)
18 G-man up after hours is
let down (7)
19 A problem one forgets
having (7)
21 Terrific opus ending
properly (5)
23 A bit of this is alienating
a plant (5)
Cryptic clues from our knight, and quick clues from his squire,
lead to the same answers in the Crusader’s Sunday joust
ACROSS
1 Former planet (5) 4 Softening (9)
9 Large predatory marine fish
(5,5,5)
10 Ill fame (9)
11 Virgo’s brightest star (5) 12 Highest (7)
13 Emitting soft radiance (7) 15 Fit with the facts (5,2) 18 Hopelessness (7) 20 Subsides (5) 22 Contributions (9) 24 Frequently, at intervals
(2,1,7,5)
25 Christmas plant (9) 26 Online correspondence (5)
DOWN
1 Summoned (5)
2 Tool (7)
3 Getting better (2,3,4) 4 Wear out (7)
5 Porridge ingredient (7) 6 Survives (5)
7 Hard to pin down (7) 8 Resemble (4,5) 12 Convert (9)
14 Wretched (9) 16 Repudiations (7) 17 Commodity (7) 18 Collapse by emptying of
air (7)
19 Memory loss (7) 21 Grow in size (5) 23 Mexican agave plant (5)