TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Cooking instructions should be terribly precise (7) 5 Dig into strudel, Vera! (5) 8 Oddball liable to start

things (5) 9 Empty article cropped up

with flower (3,4) 10 Mulled over returning passport and joked, we hear (8) 11 Amphibian on peewit

regularly (4) 13 A crab’s wandering round

beetle (6) 15 Emperor races a

convertible (6) 18 50 Amp source of

illumination (4) 19 Rose heard going to American and Asian city (8) 22 Tray I’ve smashed for theatrical entertainment (7) 23 Fittingly lay about outside

exercise class (5) 24 Autocrat’s measure (5) 25 Reunite scattered

followers (7)

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broken (7) 2 Tribe with force produce a

loud resounding noise (5) 3 Given pain, task to form a

country (8) 4 Crossword writer’s dog (6) 5 Small drink from doctor

before morning (4) 6 Leo’s sin involved his

mate (7) 7 Discard, not initially, then

throw out (5) 12 Eye problem in pet, a rat

keeping cold (8) 14 Seafarer’s alarm I’d set

off (7) 16 The others endlessly yell

about new image (7) 17 Wife in early trouble with

solicitor (6) 18 Romeo is left, surplus (5) 20 Copper can interrupt (3,2) 21 Close to new feature (4)