TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Wild pig and ape threw heavy item (11) 9 Drop of salt water (3) 10 Domestic pipes almost going out (9) 11 Staggered by river mammal Ted caught (8) 12 House attached to another in cruise missile (4) 14 Looted another place in Spain (6) 16 No bias displayed in Japanese horticultural art (6) 18 Carry European winter

sport (4) 19 Throw it back from plane to offspring (8) 22 Captivates on the ways in (9) 23 Compete eagerly in Riviera (3) 24 Saw one lobster cooked in the servants’ quarters (5,6)

DOWN

2 Superior, British in flying boat (5) 3 Urge bosses to become intellectuals (8) 4 Women’s organisation has the right to fade (6) 5 Some quite mundane

article (4) 6 She will get what’s coming to her! (7) 7 Driver’s place to be more elevated? To the soberest rather (11) 8 Starter kit in? Go in again once you return (8,3) 13 One’s cast as troubled European noble (8) 15 Beneficiary finds entrance in shelter (7) 17 Traces changes, as responds to stimulus (6) 20 One coming to the rescue with cheap travel ticket (5) 21 Drop round for some pudding (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Heavy desk ornament (11) 9 Abate (3) 10 Rainwater pipes (9) 11 Lurched (8) 12 Attached house (4) 14 Spanish city (6) 16 Miniature tree (6) 18 Light toboggan (4) 19 Abandon, reject (8) 22 Access points (9) 23 Battle (for) (3) 24 In the servants’ quarters (5,6)

DOWN

2 Chief monk (5) 3 Boffins (8) 4 Shrivel up (6) 5 Article (4) 6 Female inheritor (7) 7 Abstainer (11) 8 Car starter (8,3) 13 Italian noblewoman (8) 15 Will beneficiary (7) 17 Answers (6) 20 Money depositor (5) 21 Milk pudding (4)