TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

1 Cheeky child regarding

painting style (7) 8 Bird to spoil a fight

almost (7) 9 Stick out if badly troubled

with large omission (7) 10 Rushes to board game (5) 11 From another part of the country, not right to have no will (9) 14 Employ and captivate (6) 15 Bound, it is said, to show

faith (5) 16 Tiny returns on a group of

pack animals (6) 20 Group’s cold massage is

beauty treatment (4,5) 23 Surpass former prison

room, we hear (5) 24 Tea I knock back with

bread (7) 25 Herb, or, say, an onion,

initially (7) 26 Ornate sceptre gains admiration (7)

1 Metal and frozen water

almost dry (6) 2 Vegetable – kitchen vessel takes a ton, virtually (6) 3 Punches garden pests (5) 4 Greek character in Rome,

gangly (5) 5 Canny punter upset about

daughter (7) 6 European peninsula or

African country left out (6) 7 Chase money-holder

round type of turn (6) 12 Roots circling trunk (5) 13 Short-tempered because

of penultimate trial? (5) 15 Picture gold on board (7) 16 Stay hidden on airbed, say

(3,3) 17 More knowing

bowman? (6) 18 Civilised to point to living in

a city (6) 19 Boot is restyled for

musician (6) 21 Interior design displayed in

inside corridor (5) 22 Dine on ship’s chairs (5)