THE SUNDAY CRUSADER
The Crusader’s clues
ACROSS
1 Loudmouth goes
crazy! (5)
4 U-boat fleets,
perhaps? (9) 9 Something to talk
about (10,5)
10 Stone tossed out,
squire (9)
11 Rough lot from
Germany (5)
12 Cast right about opera,
note (7)
13 Faint line added to
poster (7)
15 Male with a purpose
outside a city (7) 18 Passé clothing not
discouraged (7) 20 Mixed paint is out of
place (5)
22 Balms cover scars, but
not all spots (9) 24 Cast from H.M.S.
Pinafore, say? (6,9) 25 Care of middle school
cards (9)
26 Two of these read a
paper (5)
DOWN
1 Part of Earth, actually (5) 2 Neglected bust
eroding (7) 3 Peterborough copper in
Slough had to think (9) 4 Barren aliens over
anger (7)
5 Rows of cyclists getting
cold (7)
6 Valued model in
close-up (5)
7 Scold finished with
plait (7)
8 Shady officer before
entering hut (9)
12 Edited article is
truthful (9)
14 Fair point by abandoned
adept (9)
16 Er, this is one of theirs (7) 17 Country farm’s last grey
eggs (7)
18 French of a game
aristocrat (7)
19 A month inside upset kind, hard-working people (7)
21 Drawn, getting
married? (5)
23 Unknown lady – cut back,
alas (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 Turns over (5)
4 Divisions of a category, set
etc. (9)
9 Boardroom
centrepiece (10,5) 10 Greenish-blue (9) 11 Preliminary version (5) 12 Issue, emit (7) 13 Sylph-like (7)
15 City of SW California (7) 18 Intimidated (7) 20 Unsuitable (5)
22 Sites, places (9) 24 Ejected at sea (6,9) 25 Humorists (9) 26 Dissertation (5)
DOWN
1 Aspect (5)
2 Disregarded (7)
3 Wonder (9)
4 Germ-free (7)
5 Quarrels (7)
6 Evaluated (5)
7 Reproach (7)
8 Took cover (9) 12 True-to-life (9) 14 Even-handed (9) 16 Rearranged word (7) 17 Country of SE Europe (7) 18 Duke’s wife (7) 19 Destructive computer
programs (7)
21 Pulled (a vehicle) (5) 23 More’s the pity (5)