TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Marketing giveaway releases more than enough (4,6) 8 Desert plants seen in

specific action (5) 9 Can seabird find Monmouthshire abbey? (7) 10 Ancestor heard to

abstain (7) 11 £25 for keeping head of

exotic flower (5) 12 Stop Jolson entering

common (9) 15 Eat too much Cheddar? (5) 17 Cecil is removing winter

spikes (7) 19 Building changed if I

cement over (7) 20 Amazed when dad’s back

in time (5) 21 All entering the very thin

gap (10)

DOWN

2 Come back about

aggressive dog (5) 3 Bewitching stare from no

good-looker? (4,3) 4 Or change venality again

(13) 5 Model that’s popular swallowed by small dog! (3-2) 6 Bulldoze venue to

flatten (4,3) 7 Covetousness of diplomat

dropping round (4) 8 Place to eat during

Corsica festival (4) 12 Long to hold mythical

creature like a pig (7) 13 Gravely written

inscription! (7) 14 Misleading part of small

landmass (4) 15 Garry leaves cap in valley

in Scotland (4) 16 English eleven meeting the French, one sent abroad (5) 18 Pick up king, then knight (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Giveaway (4,6) 8 Desert plants (5) 9 Ruined abbey in the Wye

Valley (7) 10 Avoid voluntarily (7) 11 Large showy flower (5) 12 Common (9) 15 Deep ravine (5) 17 Cold spikes (7) 19 Building (7) 20 Astonished (5) 21 All, the lot (10)

DOWN

2 Happen again (5) 3 Nasty look (4,3) 4 As a substitute (13) 5 Celebrity wallposter (3-2) 6 Balance (4,3) 7 Be jealous of (4) 8 Coffee shop (4) 12 Pertaining to swine (7) 13 Words on a tomb (7) 14 Area of land in water (4) 15 Scottish valley (4) 16 Ban from a country (5) 18 Acquire information (5)