THE SUNDAY CRUSADER AND HIS SQUIRE The Squire’s clues
The Crusader’s clues
ACROSS
1 Pad page, line one (5) 4 Complaint about poor
light leads to anger (9) 9 Passing, by
chance? (10,5)
10 See red pitch area
before match (5,1,3) 11 Country Uranus cut
off (5)
12 Stick with your
chemist (7)
13 Grave near defaced
den (7)
15 A doubter disheartened
an abstainer (7)
18 Swell copper and stone
object (7)
20 Servants a spymaster
assists (5)
22 Drawing in front of an empty bus no good after biro edit (9) 24 Perspective noble following action failed to consider (4,4,7)
25 Note about church
architecture intrigues (9) 26 Grim face of stranded
flyer (5)
DOWN
1 Overt scheme works (5) 2 A pair of black cotton
trousers fits (7)
3 Gift women don’t use (9) 4 Toast finished by
pro (4,3)
5 Spook found the sources
of leaks easily (7) 6 Burdened youth went
inside (5)
7 Arsenic and lead – lead
mostly (2,1,4)
8 Dead man under old
German’s house (9) 12 Practical film used to coat
inferior paper doily (9) 14 Wild critter’s small
bounds (9)
16 Stylish man lacking in
courage (7)
17 Idle talk about a
madman (7)
18 A month in a Norfolk town
is upsetting (7) 19 Gourmet preserve put on
cooked pie (7)
21 Quickly read prose intro
cut back (5)
23 Prig back on a school
board (3,2)
Cryptic clues from our knight, and quick clues from his squire,
lead to the same answers in the Crusader’s Sunday joust
ACROSS
1 Spot (5)
4 Annoy (9)
9 Demise by
misadventure (10,5) 10 Go ape (5,1,3) 11 Island country in the
Pacific (5)
12 Louis ___, French
bacteriologist (7) 13 Serious, sincere (7) 15 Self-denying (7) 18 Expand from internal
pressure (7) 20 Female domestics (5) 22 Soaking up (9) 24 Bear in mind (4,4,7) 25 Colludes (9)
26 Strict (5)
DOWN
1 Factory (5)
2 Grants (7)
3 Provision (9)
4 Doomed (4,3)
5 Make jump (7)
6 Weighed down (5) 7 Generally speaking (2,1,4) 8 Tired out (9) 12 Hard-headed (9)
14 Limits (9)
16 Domestic fowl (7) 17 Prattle (7)
18 Greatly saddens (7) 19 Gourmand (7)
21 Stint (on) (5)
23 Fare (3,2)