TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Deferred use charged

externally (9) 6 Thus boy begins to cry (3) 8 Broken piers form part of

church (5) 9 Fig many set out to blow

up! (7) 10 Waited around for Eliot

novel (revolutionary) (8) 11 French drink blocked wide

end of inner tube (4) 13 Go late, terribly

smoothly (6) 14 Anything following cold is

got by infection (6) 17 Forehead mostly tanned (4) 19 Shocking if rich or

refined (8) 22 Managed to fire rifle (7) 23 German leader captivated

by awful mournful song (5) 24 Source of illumination was

ahead (3) 25 Gear a soldier craftily puts

about (9)

DOWN

1 Sort of fibre in plants is a

linen (5) 2 Shooting while hidden at tailless bird in Gateshead (7) 3 In chapel even though last

man in at cricket (8) 4 Stops the Spanish girl (6) 5 Investigates accommodation (4) 6 Small drink for pigs (5) 7 Any to be fixed? One’s

fixed to a gun muzzle (7) 12 Dog left abroad wrong?

Right! (8) 13 Generous and broadminded (7) 15 Foolishly I forgot to really

make an effort (2,3,2) 16 Prison setting hair on

end? (4-2) 18 Part of town Edward

possessed (5) 20 Musical board game (5) 21 Two aides for dad (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Adjourned (9) 6 Blub (3) 8 Pointed tower (5) 9 Amplify (7) 10 Dallied (8) 11 Blood vessel (4) 13 Smoothly, in music (6) 14 Apprehended (6) 17 Crest (4) 19 Dreadful, ghastly (8) 22 Loot (7) 23 Dreary song (5) 24 Conducted (3) 25 Equipment (9)

DOWN

1 Agave fibre (5) 2 Carping critically (7) 3 Just out of the top ten (8) 4 Lass, maiden (6) 5 Excavations (4) 6 Pig (5) 7 Infantry weapon (7) 12 Breed of dog (8) 13 Broad-minded (7) 15 Do your best (2,3,2) 16 Confine (4,2) 18 Confessed (5) 20 Game of strategy (5) 21 Father (4)