TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Lost out to nice rustic

labourer (7) 5 Saves damaged urns (5) 8 Value of soft grain (5) 9 Building changed if I

cement over (7) 10 Avoiding attention of likely

limits in heat (5,3) 11 They say the fool has to

make woollens (4) 13 Sound of a gun – bulletin!

(6) 15 Not a new programme

about fuel (6) 18 Grow weary of American

covering (4) 19 Create confusion after film

and so on (2,6) 22 Speaker starts yelling at

private chapel (7) 23 Romeo is left, surplus (5) 24 Breezy man goes around

street (5) 25 Paint left on beam (7)

1 Well-liked tree round

university (7) 2 Jumping bail, I must make

an excuse (5) 3 Nerve gas dispersed by those seeking retribution (8) 4 Short attempt more complicated making one shudder (6) 5 Even film centres provide

cover (4) 6 Sense of right and wrong

without Tory discipline (7) 7 Perspire when waste put

out (5) 12 One selling gems, mock,

accepting fine (8) 14 Exercise, sharp turns possibly? (7) 16 A treaty broken by carrier

(3,4) 17 Keep afloat, but don’t turn

in (4,2) 18 Piece of cloth on guy,

beachwear item (5) 20 Immature swimmer always

circling lake (5) 21 Seizing old dehydrated

fish (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Rustic person (7) 5 Flower jars (5) 8 Cost (5) 9 Building (7) 10 Going to ground (5,3) 11 Interweave (4) 13 Bulletin (6) 15 Do again (6) 18 Become exhausted (4) 19 And so forth (2,6) 22 Art of speaking (7) 23 Aficionado (5) 24 Blowy (5) 25 Depict (7)

DOWN

1 In demand (7) 2 Defendant’s plea (5) 3 People seeking retribution

(8) 4 Minor earthquake (6) 5 Cover with cloth (4) 6 Physics, biology etc (7) 7 Perspiration (5) 12 Dealer in gems (8) 14 Maybe (7) 16 Drinks platter (3,4) 17 Go to bed late (4,2) 18 Strap (5) 20 Immature eel (5) 21 European sea fish (4)