TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 One may be given in a church in a county town (7) 5 Brush, or brushwood? (5) 8 Audible magnitude of
sounds of relief (5) 9 Stopped work and went
to bed (7) 10 Profit from hobby (8) 11 Order youth leader to do
as he’s told (4) 13 Got to miss header, but
scored (6) 15 Gear a number put on
baby animal (6) 18 Sprint to the line (4) 19 Keep being quiet with
book (8) 22 Second-rate bat gets sup
port (7) 23 Poem Lily’d reproduced
(5) 24 Dean’s new chair (5) 25 Encourage leading boffin
(7)
DOWN
1 Priest off to the Orient for
a break (7) 2 Mustang’s tail covering
worry (5) 3 Awful resident entered
(8) 4 Turn up in a mackintosh, sir – a greatcoat is rather showy (6) 5 Upsetting contents of
burrow (4) 6 Welsh dish – unusual
piece (7) 7 Pal’s sprout to dry right
out (5) 12 Circle lies round inside
wine (8) 14 What cows chew with
out celebrity sauce (7) 16 Annoyed and wanted to
set about pupil (7) 17 Legal document gets
the man to squirm (6) 18 Little girl with backstreet money problems (5) 20 My! Her awful verse!
(5) 21 Similar to a monarch,
no good (4)
ACROSS
1 Perusing (7) 5 Brushwood (5) 8 Long deep breaths (5) 9 No longer working (7) 10 Saver’s premium (8) 11 Do as told (4) 13 Deeply marked (6) 15 Baby cat (6) 18 Hurry (4) 19 Pickle (8) 22 Shelf support (7) 23 Country paradise (5) 24 Carried chair (5) 25 Intellectual (7)
DOWN
1 Breathing space (7) 2 Pent-up worry (5) 3 Embedded (8) 4 Gaudy (6) 5 Badger’s home (4) 6 Welsh cheese dish (7) 7 Pal (5) 12 Dry German wine (8) 14 Sauce for puddings (7) 16 Annoyed (7) 17 Twist in pain (6) 18 Obligations (5) 20 Verse (5) 21 Of similar nature (4)
PREVIOUS SOLUTION Across:
1 Pestilence 8 Dover 9 Neptune 10 Guy rope 11 Leads 12 Suffocate 15 Stars 17 Pigment 19 Harrier 20 Lying 21 Wet blanket Down: 2 Envoy 3 Turn off 4 Lance corporal 5 Nepal 6 Educate 7 Sees 8 Digs 12 Sparrow 13 Angolan 14 Stag 15 Soho 16 Skint 18 Elite