TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Bert, say, unfortunately breaks faith (7) 5 Some pilot used to make a bloomer (5) 8 Rumba cast a shadow (5) 9 Horse face inhibits boy (7) 10 Returning to help gauge width (8) 11 Clasps part of snakes (4) 13 First reheat ovens for Sunday joints (6) 15 Enclosed – be quiet! (4,2) 18 Close big ski hut, renovate holiday home (4) 19 TS Eliot novel contained end of blunt dagger (8) 22 Passed over eroding rocks (7) 23 Get up around noon and wash lightly (5) 24 To rub out is simplicity holding end of rubber (5) 25 Resin plastered around church – honest (7)

DOWN

1 More brazen about university city in America (7) 2 Bone starts to toughen in babies if active (5) 3 A horse taking leader to drink (8) 4 One who finds the total for the season? (6) 5 50-1 odds in a manner of speaking (4) 6 Conveyance of property around the poles (7) 7 Audible magnitude of sounds of relief (5) 12 Doctor in country, the last to shun issue (8) 14 Social worker and girl put up aerial (7) 16 Student got peer agitated (7) 17 In dispute with barber when outside (2,4) 18 Very serious fire ultimately becomes sooty dirt (5) 20 Perhaps past showing the strain (5) 21 Short set of instructions used to make cheese (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Deceives (7) 5 Water lily (5) 8 Shadow (5) 9 Wild horse (7) 10 Circle’s width (8) 11 Serpents (4) 13 Cooks in the oven (6) 15 Be quiet! (4,2) 18 French holiday home (4) 19 Dagger (8) 22 Disregarded (7) 23 Light wash (5) 24 Delete (5) 25 Earnest (7)

DOWN

1 Large rock (7) 2 Bone in the leg (5) 3 Liqueur flavoured with

almonds (8) 4 Sunny season (6) 5 Say “th” for “s” (4) 6 Conveyance (7) 7 Exhales audibly (5) 12 Infants (8) 14 Aerial (7) 16 Ward (7) 17 In conflict (2,4) 18 Thick dirt (5) 20 Anxious (5) 21 French cheese (4)