Crusader Monday 17 September

[KarlC]

Hi everyone, can you help with the following questions(the answers are not on Brian's site this week):

1 across: Easy task, taking novice on embrace (6)
10 across: Game is bent, changing everything (7)
11 across: Jack cooked prune with one flavouring (7)
23 across: Relaxed, making effortless progress (4-5)
25 across: Consumed soil mixture first that was set aside (7)
27 across: Abnormal to search with broken rake (8)

[possetpie]

25 Isolate

[kettledrum]

23a easy-going

[possetpie]

10 netball

[kettledrum]

10a netball

[possetpie]

1 clinch

[possetpie]

11 juniper

[sarumite]

27a Freakish

[KarlC]

Thanks possetpie and kettledrum.

I've got three more I can't crack:

4 across: Cite a bar's problem with germs (8)
7 down: Engineers ring to cancel (6)
8 down: Wear a plait, say (6)

[KarlC]

And thank you saraumite!

[KarlC]

And thank you sarumite!

[javap]

Abrade
Bacteria
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