TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 Resolved to live permanently with daughter (7) 8 Wayward deserter harboured by Eric (7) 9 Active and dead writers’ afterthoughts (7) 10 Fly round left of the Sun (5) 11 Boy with no university, it is a joint problem (9) 14 Repaired first of machines, then finished (6) 15 Appeal to the French occupying flat (5) 16 Old one developing into

pasta! (6) 20 Missile base produces nourishing plant (9) 23 Regarding thickness, respond (5) 24 Male bird finds duty list involving duck (7) 25 Al leaves Down Under for another country (7) 26 Friend follows member in lawful way (7) DOWN 1 New name as a mariner (6) 2 To go steady until now (2,4) 3 Non-mixer Noel organised first runs (5) 4 Delivered port on time (5) 5 Played the telltale and gossiped – that’s about right (7) 6 Pigpen was first to be fashioned (6) 7 Start to see awful decor was etched deeply (6) 12 Bette married off to waster (5) 13 Stage of development where yours truly’s in the past (5) 15 Actors in the football team? (7) 16 Country bearing alternative route (6) 17 Are not in favour of model appearing after work (6) 18 Accommodation small, claimed by Ritz? (6) 19 Tale about leader of militants, full of angry outbursts (6) 21 Country river, Russian one? (5) 22 Badly grown? That’s not right (5) COFFEE TIME ACROSS 1 Became stable (7) 8 Irregular (7) 9 Appendices (7) 10 Of the Sun (5) 11 Stiffness of the joints (9) 14 Repaired (6) 15 Entreat (5) 16 Pasta string (6) 20 Starchy plant (9) 23 Respond (5) 24 Male chicken (7) 25 Alpine country (7) 26 Lawfully (7) DOWN 1 Mariner (6) 2 Until now (2,4) 3 Solitary person (5) 4 Shared out cards (5) 5 Turfed (7) 6 Designed (6) 7 Gained points (6) 12 Lazy person (5) 13 Adult butterfly (5) 15 Actors (7) 16 Scandinavian country (6) 17 Speak up against (6) 18 Traveller’s refuge (6) 19 Very windy (6) 21 Of the country (5) 22 Incorrect (5)