TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Agrees with friends after time (7) 5 Old money invested in education (5) 8 Turn after said warning on course and give up (5) 9 Go in van round French city (7) 10 Raised more than half the team before date changed (8) 11 Antler caught in thorns (4) 13 Recovered right away when united (6) 15 Drink of the gods producing trance (6) 18 Loud performance, it’s true (4) 19 Most pure sleet can drift? (8) 22 Daily growth in horticulturalist’s tub, bless her! (7) 23 Relative, English, in pleasant surroundings (5) 24 Surrender profit (5) 25 Got lost, yet remained right inside (7)
DOWN
1 Material, lard turning up with cheese (7) 2 Big, but somewhat regular gemstones (5) 3 Hero-worshipper I swindle afterwards (8) 4 Thrifty person holds old pound to drool over (6) 5 Weed gets a bit of water, perhaps (4) 6 Monarch’s partner, Tory type (7) 7 Piece of wood group of nine lifted (5) 12 One who keeps the old family servant (8) 14 Formal talk of work to rule etc (7) 16 Once more take steps to improve the tyre (7) 17 Those out of this world, in sale, perhaps (6) 18 Suspicious if retiring and bashful (5) 20 Confused yes-men lose southern foe (5) 21 A place to go when one’s retired (4)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 Agrees (7) 5 Old European coin (5) 8 Do without (5) 9 Southern French city (7) 10 Brought higher (8) 11 Antler (4) 13 Affiliated (6) 15 Drink of the gods (6) 18 Indisputable detail (4) 19 Freshest (8) 22 Short chin hair (7) 23 Brother’s child (5) 24 Concede (5) 25 Digressed (7)
DOWN
1 Ball-gown fabric (7) 2 Big (5) 3 Besotted admirer (8) 4 Dribble (6) 5 Flow slowly (4) 6 Associate (with) (7) 7 Carpenter’s joint (5) 12 Holding fee (8) 14 Educational talk (7) 16 Nearly new tyre (7) 17 Foreigners (6) 18 Implausible (5) 20 Adversary (5) 21 Between the sheets (4)
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
Across: 1 Fortnight (Fought knight); 6 Awl; 8 (S)Tench; 9 Mustang; 10 Needling; 11 Plan(e); 13 Resist; 14 Probes; 17 Lash; 19 Turned up; 22 Icicles; 23 Trove; 24 Dot; 25 Tradesmen.
Down: 1 Futon; 2 Rangers; 3 Nihilist; 4 Gemini; 5 Task; 6 Avail ; 7 Legends; 12 Brunette; 13 Rallied; 15 Bedroom; 16 Russia (Rusher); 18 Skint; 20 Preen; 21 Glut.