TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Supports, but not for long

(7) 5 Get lost if store doesn’t open computer department (3,2) 8 Stretch of land pursued,

we hear (5) 9 Go back over some of the car terminals, having reversed (7) 10 Survival equipment for long term prisoner with a small foot (4,4) 11 Animal trainer conceals

whisky (4) 13 Poem for boy, with catch

(6) 15 Looked at the man left without a place to sleep (6) 18 Giant of giant reputation,

enormous for starters (4) 19 Witty conversation sinful in

later years? (8) 22 Vet bars disorder, most

daring (7) 23 Model tights – but not

these! (5) 24 Some loathe metalwork

subject (5) 25 Red rose twining round

altar screen (7)

DOWN

1 Decides and comes to rest

(7) 2 Rubbish written in each

affidavit (5) 3 Legal people upsetting

señorita (8) 4 Person, untidy at the back

of the neck (6) 5 Strikes successful songs

(4) 6 Calm position around

centre of path (7) 7 T-torn river (5) 12 Record concerning fierce

tigers (8) 14 Raced over to judge to tell

the tale (7) 16 Those tackling a weighty

problem? (7) 17 Parrot variety is bird of prey

(6) 18 Complete circuit, or boring

part? (5) 20 Granted your say, for all to

hear (5) 21 Shuffling feet in the bazaar

(4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Backs (7) 5 Get lost! (3,2) 8 Area of land (5) 9 Go back over (7) 10 Emergency boat (4,4) 11 Steeped barley (4) 13 Poem of fourteen lines (6) 15 Observed (6) 18 Evil giant (4) 19 Chit-chat (8) 22 Most heroic (7) 23 Things over there (5) 24 Subject (5)

25 Altar screen (7) DOWN

1 Calms (down) (7) 2 Grain husks (5) 3 Public records officials (8) 4 Nape of the neck (6) 5 Bumps into (4) 6 Appease (7) 7 Nottingham’s river (5) 12 School roll-call (8) 14 Chronicle (7) 16 Slimmers (7) 17 Bird of prey (6) 18 Path of a planet (5) 20 Audibly (5) 21 Bazaar (4)