TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 How a bird may eat if

uncontrollable (3,2,4) 6 Main chair, backless (3) 8 One is disposed to make a

racket (5) 9 Shout encouragement given one-nil, then farewell (7) 10 Those who throw jugs (8) 11 Could be mean, having the

last word (4) 13 Old record player to irritate

(6) 14 Prohibited orchestra, we

hear (6) 17 Dull mother goes to

motorcycle races (4) 19 Wrong name of a thousand

merinos, maybe (8) 22 Stay to drink some wine

(7) 23 Scales part-calibrated (5) 24 Some of the crusaders are

not happy (3) 25 Decline a role and go to

pieces (4,5)

DOWN

1 Admit love for women returning wordplay (3,2) 2 National emblem shown in

the list, wrongly (7) 3 Release one’s grip on the

property (8) 4 Current company on road

to agreement (6) 5 Suffices for some animals

(4) 6 Get away with swindle?

That’s about right (5) 7 A den Rod artfully

decorated (7) 12 Main goal to produce shrub

(8) 13 Goddess finding Meissen

potty! (7) 15 Not entirely bad, I’m in a

strange country (7) 16 Having lot to drink, going

back for gun (6) 18 Model copied and

recorded (5) 20 Respond, and go on stage

again? (5) 21 Learner in confusion back

for a game (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Uncontrollable (3,2,4) 6 Small ocean (3) 8 Unpleasant sound (5) 9 Farewell (7) 10 Baseball bowlers (8) 11 Last word of a prayer (4) 13 Sewing implement (6) 14 Prohibited (6) 17 Non-gloss (4) 19 Wrong name (8) 22 Underpin (7) 23 Zodiac scales (5) 24 Unhappy (3) 25 Go to pieces (4,5)

DOWN

1 Admit (3,2) 2 Prickly Scottish plant (7) 3 Type of property ownership (8) 4 Agreement (6) 5 Female rabbits (4) 6 Be off! (5) 7 Decorated (7) 12 Creamy-white paint colour

(8) 13 Vengeance (7) 15 Country bordering South

Africa (7) 16 Gun (6) 18 Recorded on video (5) 20 Respond (5) 21 Eighteen-hole game (4)