TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chap, me, cooking island

dessert (5,5) 8 Unusually born a

nobleman (5) 9 Row about stray dog (7) 10 Head of government

destroys empire, right? (7) 11 Crockery damage caused

by French fries? (5) 12 A leggy one deciphered

tree study? (9) 15 Handle an odd person (5) 17 Full pint he’d spilt (2-5) 19 Two articles on painting, in

essence (2,5) 20 A bit put aside (5) 21 Chief minister taking opportunity to get bread back (10)

DOWN

2 During my career I experienced something weird (5) 3 Transfer prisoner with

placard (7) 4 Mercenary CIA time trials

muddled (13) 5 Cyril rewrote part of

song (5) 6 A community I would

enter with bitterness (7) 7 Eye part of girl (4) 8 Dances a little and grasp

Obama’s back (4) 12 Vividly descriptive diagram

I see, so to speak (7) 13 Manipulated bald old

eccentric (7) 14 Short note written during

lunch, I think (4) 15 Rough steep rock that rises

up in an amazing arch (4) 16 Swallowed by gecko, a lazy

marsupial (5) 18 Instrument causing pain

over nothing (5)

ACROSS

1 Dish of icecream and

fruit (5,5) 8 Aristocratic title (5) 9 Breed of dog (7) 10 Chief (7) 11 Casino tokens (5) 12 Study of ancestry (9) 15 Starting handle (5) 17 Extensively (2,5) 19 Deep down (2,5) 20 Divided (5) 21 Senior state official (10)

DOWN

1 Distinction (6) 2 Mysterious (5) 3 Commit (7) 4 Mercenary (13) 5 Part of a song (5) 6 Bitterness (7) 7 Eye part (4) 8 Dances (4) 12 Descriptive (7) 13 Eccentric (7) 14 Docket (4) 15 Rocky outcrop (4) 16 Australian marsupial (5) 18 Softly, in music (5)