TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 As garrulous people do to the greatest degree (9) 6 Vessel is empowered (3) 8 Feature about a range of mountains (5) 9 Thankless type breaking granite (7) 10 Researcher, not Roman Catholic, arranged runthrough (8) 11 Portion of strudel in food shop (4) 13 Put last of onion in bags of crisps etc (6) 14 Is in the band, on the up (6) 17 Take home light material, say (4) 19 Flower caper on drive (8) 22 Artillery to outline life’s hurly-burly (3,4) 23 Dwell in part of prefab I decorated (5) 24 Some sages mature (3) 25 Overwhelms one sister with engagements (9)
DOWN
1 Cruel sort of sore (5) 2 Hospital goes in to find a windpipe (7) 3 Plunders organised mailbags (8) 4 Peso, it only holds back what’s unnecessary (6) 5 Small country ghetto governed internally (4) 6 Cold comfort to stop (5) 7 Lacking bakery process, we hear (7) 12 Doctor Kildare’s western town (8) 13 Spanish tipple gave voice to song, backwards (7) 15 Pair with one herb around book-mark (7) 16 Possibly get a gold finish on cake (6) 18 Italian article about tax (5) 20 Staggers through the dances (5) 21 Island gripped by tribalism (4)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 Furthest away (9) 6 Am able to (3) 8 Metal necklace (5) 9 Thankless person (7) 10 Practise (8) 11 Food store (4) 13 Hurried meals (6) 14 Ascending (6) 17 After deductions (4) 19 Delphinium (8) 22 Daily grind (3,4) 23 Tolerate (5) 24 Become older (3) 25 Overwhelms (9)
DOWN
1 Internal sore (5) 2 Windpipe (7) 3 Loots (8) 4 Functionless (6) 5 Ghana’s neighbour (4) 6 Break off (5) 7 Requiring (7) 12 Cornish town north of Looe (8) 13 Spanish wine punch (7) 15 Indentation (7) 16 Fancy cake (6) 18 Church tax (5) 20 Bobbins (5) 21 Indonesian island (4)
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
Across: 1.Advancement; 9 Awn; 10 Trilobite; 11 Timorous; 12Yo(u)-yo(u); 14 Expose; 16.Tariff; 18 Iron; 19 Great tit; 22 Loathsome; 23 Boa(r); 24 Accumulator.
Down: 2 Denim; 3 Asterisk; 4 Clique; 5 Moor; 6 Nairobi; 7 Battlefield; 8 Let off steam; 13 Pasadena; 15 Prosaic; 17 Ormolu(g); 20 Taboo; 21 Thou.