The Squire’s clues

The Crusader’s clues

ACROSS

1 Boring outlaw half

content (5)

4 Fake cleaner on about

birth (9)

9 Another UFO to cut

down (3,2,10)

10 Tonic drunk with awful

first course (9)

11 Girl in tune returning a

drink (5)

12 City of Gold isn’t on the

level (7)

13 A swimmer put on a

German drug (7) 15 Team losing in the morning hurts coaches (7)

18 Back roads perhaps

within a country (7) 20 An animal Ezekiel sides

with (5)

22 Vegetable produce

behind a guy (9) 24 Tipsy reproof cut her as

expected (3,3,3,6) 25 Stand in front of erudite judge showing self-restraint (9)

26 He says she’ll lead one

day (5)

DOWN

Cryptic clues from our knight, and quick clues from his squire,

lead to the same answers in the Crusader’s Sunday joust

1 Kids made beer for

listeners (5) 2 Normal ulna rat

fractured (7) 3 An adviser sick of a

cliché (4,5) 4 Friends working during

calls (7) 5 Lama confused about

container compiled data (7) 6 Poorly-written role’s

failure (5) 7 A city outing a little

foolish (7) 8 Not cut in half, length is

unrivalled (9)

12 Ten photos developed at

once (2,3,4)

14 Hairy lawyer represented

surgeon (9)

16 Beau not in is one of about

nine (7)

17 Island trauma’s quite

different (7)

18 Real CSE description some

aired (7)

19 Material girl oddly beginning to obsess over weight (7)

21 Aircraft north of France

climbing easily, at first (5) 23 Marks out of time happening to connect (3,2)

ACROSS

1 Trite (5)

4 Fraud (9)

9 Inoperative (3,2,10) 10 Guidance (9)

11 Red or white Spanish

wine (5)

12 City of N central France (7) 13 Drug derived from

morphine (7)

15 Educates (7)

18 Country of West Africa (7) 20 Large antelope (5)

22 Sugar pea (9)

24 Normal (3,3,3,6)

25 Mild, balmy (9)

26 Paul ___, US singer (5)

DOWN

1 Muse darkly (5)

2 Organic (7)

3 Success consultant (4,5) 4 Buddies (7)

5 Annual book of data (7) 6 No-hoper (5)

7 Capital of Libya (7) 8 Peerless (9)

12 There and then (2,3,4) 14 Unsafe (9)

16 Rearranged word (7) 17 Large island of Indonesia (7) 18 Genuine (7)

19 Coarse silk fabric (7)

21 Low humming sound (5) 23 Link up (3,2)