THE SUNDAY CRUSADER AND HIS SQUIRE – WIN £100 The Crusader’s clues The Squire’s clues
ACROSS
1 One may kowtow and
retreat (5)
4 Riders brace
unsupported spoke (9) 9 Away match following
pitch upset (5,3,7) 10 Submit thanks at home,
please (9)
11 Many insects saw
opening close (5) 12 Anger about private communication comes to abrupt end (3,4) 13 Material over lard and
cheese (7)
15 Opaque piece by tabloid
about model (7) 18 Grass finally, after bad
day, raked (7)
20 Oaf falling short spies a
refuge (5)
22 A lot more borders a
state and a county (9) 24 Aloof fiend stuck in a rut’s in trouble with vet (15)
25 “Always duck into a cathedral,” sailors added (9)
26 What gets dramatists
going before a poet (5)
DOWN
1 Blackened lead articles to
soak (5)
2 Material taken to the
cleaners? (7)
3 Soldiers and conflict
sound worthwhile (9) 4 Dexterous man caught
resisting (7)
5 Maybe Tom, Chuck and
Earl covered furniture (7) 6 Weightlifter single sailor
upset (5)
7 Man making a posh
European dull (7) 8 Fantasy world a chap has
left in terror (9) 12 Duplicate contract holds
advantage (9)
14 A makeover for motor
racing? Revolutionary! (9) 16 Mischievous Eris expected
rest (7)
17 Token given back by
foreign oilman (7) 18 Attractive young officer back to catch soldiers up (7)
19 Fighter fighting a
dissenting group (7)
21 He says yes to a Spaniard
and Scotsman (5) 23 Vitamin found in sugary
cut vegetable (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 Arbour (5)
4 Held forth (9)
9 Unsettle (5,3,7) 10 Amuse (9)
11 Teem (5)
12 Cloud of rage (3,4) 13 Crisp silk fabric (7) 15 Epitome of excellence (7) 18 Attacked with gunfire (7) 20 Desert fertile spot (5) 22 Big money (9) 24 Restrained (15) 25 Forever (9)
26 ___ Alighieri, poet (5)
DOWN
1 Suffuse (5)
2 Smooth woollen yarn or
cloth (7)
3 Profitable (9) 4 Recalcitrant (7)
5 ___ minister (7) 6 Sky-bearing Titan (5) 7 Ordinary, banal (7) 8 World of reverie (9) 12 Have children (9) 14 Rabble-rouser (9) 16 Matter remaining (7) 17 In name only (7) 18 Pleasant to look at (7) 19 Splinter group (7) 21 Paul or Carly, e.g. (5) 23 Rutabaga (5)