Business Day

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Wrong if I am able to lift

churchman (10) 8 Bump into the vessel (5) 9 Oil and damp damaged

certificat­e (7) 10 Railway car, one across the

tracks? (7) 11 Green one installed in part

of church (5) 12 Bad weather from Sweden, maybe dormant round south (9) 15 Roof worker kindled again

on return (5) 17 Frozen little rabbit gets a

sweet treat (4,3) 19 Shoulder bone broke cup,

alas (7) 20 County canteen nonstarter with former partner (5) 21 Giving attention to commercial on salad sauce (10)

DOWN

2 Hospital worker’s new?

Sure, surprising­ly (5) 3 Devalue each different

compound (7) 4 Guess too low a figure — it’s enumerated wrongly (13) 5 Like writer’s tree (5) 6 Say to lift maker, “Male

vanity” (7) 7 Small beer has a

market (4) 8 Despicable headquarte­rs

(4) 12 Ruler next to a dried

grape (7) 13 Son seen disrupting

harmony (7) 14 Stone bovine creature

outside New York (4) 15 Mission to Asia secures

kindly leaders (4) 16 Shot eighteen holes (5) 18 Ship’s officer in gazebo,

sunlit (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Imprecise (10) 8 Canal boat (5) 9 Certificat­e (7) 10 Overnight carriage (7) 11 Innocent (5) 12 Desert hurricane (9) 15 Roofer (5) 17 Glazed bridge roll (4,3) 19 Shoulder blade (7) 20 Epping’s county (5) 21 Talking publicly to (10)

DOWN

2 Hospital sister (5) 3 Belittle (7) 4 Rate too low (13) 5 Trembling poplar (5) 6 Conceitedn­ess (7) 7 Auction (4) 8 Bedrock (4) 12 Dried fruit (7) 13 Harmony (7) 14 Striped agate (4) 15 Assignment (4) 16 Ball-shaped (5) 18 Foreman of a ship’s crew (5)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Nicosia; 8 Termini; 9 Tallies; 10 Tonal; 11 Overstate; 14 Hiccup; 15 Canon; 16 Thread; 20 Reinstall; 23 Uncut; 24 Stipple; 25 Approve; 26 Tottery.

Down: 1 Nation; 2 Called; 3 Snips; 4 At sea; 5 Protein; 6 Pic(k)nic(e); 7 Fillip (Philip); 12 Trade; 13 Thorn; 15 Cartoon; 16 Toucan; 17 Recipe; 18 Sample; 19 Sleepy; 21 Inset; 22 Skint.

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