Beaten crusader around the end of campaign showing no sign of injury (9)

I believe the answer is:

unscarred

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'beaten crusader around the end of campaign showing no sign of injury' is the definition.
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'beaten crusader around the end of campaign' is the wordplay.
'beaten' is an anagram indicator (letters beaten up or destroyed).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the end of' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'campaign' is 'n'.
'crusader' is an anagram of 'uscarred'.
'uscarred' going around 'n' is 'UNSCARRED'.

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(Other definitions for unscarred that I've seen before include "Unmarked" , "Not carrying wound marks, physical or mental" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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