THE SUNDAY CRUSADER AND HIS SQUIRE – WIN £100 The Squire’s clues
The Crusader’s clues
ACROSS
1 Central Anglo-saxon
monarch (5)
4 A little one has fresh
crêpes hidden (3,6)
9 One puts off using
them (8,7)
10 Light hoops a man sent
up (9)
11 Young woman with a kind
of fever (5)
12 Pigs displayed covered
tails (7)
13 Male style guide covers a
variety of things (7) 15 Another one was cut to
easily (2,5)
18 Something that’s dried
on (4,3)
20 Shoot beginning last
amusing people (5) 22 Abandon pride over affair,
OK? (5,4)
24 Somebody shy restoring
Ms Beauregarde? (9,6) 25 Firm dates chopped up
quickly (9)
26 Dish put away with
nothing in it (5)
DOWN
1 Ideal metre and poem
length (5)
2 Cover up a novel
problem (7)
3 Stop talking,
understood? (3,2,4) 4 Some insects occupying
people (7)
5 Bananas end up in
Germany (7)
6 Fish getting caught after
ten stand out (5)
7 Checks run by a famous scientist discarding tellurium (5,2)
8 The hollow part of a flower that’s opening provides proof (9)
12 Welding of extremely shiny
new lead, on paper (9) 14 Animal in stories and
drawings (9)
16 A pair of decoys in a rush
curse (7)
17 Half-mute Parisian who starts to lose adventurous spirit (7)
18 Girl cross with terminal to boot (7)
Low Latin framed by a fool illuminated (7)
Nosy substitute leader of district council (5)
Dirty royal made time for a song (5)
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For your chance to WIN £100 read down the letters in the highlighted squares to reveal the mystery word.
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DE1 9TW. Competition closes April 6, 2024 at 23:59pm. An extra day is given for postal entries during bank holidays.
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Cryptic clues from our knight, and quick clues from his squire,
lead to the same answers in the Crusader’s Sunday joust
ACROSS
1 ___ touch (5)
4 Highly classified (3,6) 9 Procrastination (8,7) 10 Satirised (9)
11 ___ fever, tropical
disease (5)
12 Darkness (7)
13 Hotchpotch (7)
15 Not a problem (2,5)
18 Rug by a tub (4,3)
20 Owl sounds (5) 22 Somewhat impressive (5,4) 24 Wallflower (9,6) 25 Unwavering (9)
26 Asian kebab (5)
DOWN
1 Exemplary (5)
2 Quandary (7)
3 Fall silent (3,2,4)
4 Lodgers (7)
5 City of NE Germany (7) 6 Be very good (5) 7 Controls, curbs (5,2) 8 Bible division (9) 12 Combining (9) 14 Sweepstakes (9)
16 Bane, plague (7) 17 Slammer and sunrise
ingredient (7)
18 ___ Fonda, US actress (7) 19 In a lunar glow (7) 21 Ecclesiastical council (5) 23 Simple song (5)