TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Sounds like what the jouster did for a couple of weeks (9) 6 Law-breaking tool (3) 8 Fish pong when the head’s

removed (5) 9 Sum up flavour of horse (7) 10 Annoying move in legend

(8) 11 Blueprint of tailless aircraft

(4) 13 Hold out when sister in

trouble (6) 14 Investigates people opening garments (6) 17 Flog some vinyl ashtrays

(4) 19 Arrived at retroussé (6,2) 22 Cecil is removing winter

spikes (7) 23 Extrovert hoarding treasure (5) 24 Spot little Dorothy (3) 25 Dilapidated marts need

shopkeepers (9)

DOWN

1 Regular fault found with

bed (5) 2 Head of reserve infuriates

wardens (7) 3 Nothing is German about

greeting extreme sceptic

(8) 4 Twins, for example,

returned small car (6) 5 Some want a skilled job

(4) 6 Be of service to one in backward flowing molten rock (5) 7 Member aims to create

myths (7) 12 Vicious person holds trap

for dark-haired girl (8) 13 Made a good recovery – in

court? (7) 15 Place of boredom, perhaps? (7) 16 One racing, reportedly, for

foreign land (6) 18 Broke the casing with tinopener (5) 20 Groom to write about

engineer (5) 21 Extra amount left in

stomach (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Two weeks (9) 6 Carpenter’s tool (3) 8 Fish of the carp family (5) 9 Wild American horse (7) 10 Annoying (8) 11 Blueprint (4) 13 Defy (6) 14 Delves (6) 17 Strike with a whip (4) 19 Amplified (6,2) 22 Cold spikes (7) 23 Cache of treasure (5) 24 Minute speck (3) 25 Artisans (9)

DOWN

1 Japanese sofa bed (5) 2 Forest wardens (7) 3 Believer in nothing (8) 4 Zodiac twins (6) 5 Assignment (4) 6 Be of help to (5) 7 Fables (7) 12 Dark-haired woman (8) 13 Assembled (7) 15 Dormitory (7) 16 Moscow’s country (6) 18 Penniless (5) 20 Arrange feathers (5) 21 Big surplus (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Pandemonium; 9 Red (Read); 10 Custodian; 11 Marz(Mars)ipan; 12 Doom; 14 Esteem; 16 Lean-to; 18 Slam; 19 Decadent; 22 Indicator; 23 Awn; 24 Remonstrate.

Down: 2 (S)Adder; 3 Declined; 4 Mishap; 5 Neon; 6 Unicorn; 7 Premiership; 8 Unimportant; 13 Repairer; 15 Twaddle; 17 Berths (Births); 20 Exalt; 21 Echo.