Business Day

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Biologist an amendment to

requiremen­ts (11) 9 Fish feeling trapped (3) 10 Costing the earth? Just

the opposite (4,5) 11 Watch tumbler with a monocle (8) 12 Bird seen in Helsinki window (4) 14 Pub found in heaven, to get

thin (6) 16 Ingenious device, specially

tagged (6) 18 Cartel offering prices extremely competitiv­e initially

(initials)(4) 19 I am station worker, one

who buys from abroad (8) 22 Sign of respect at first for

certain quality (9) 23 Sister entered design unchanged (3) 24 Er, spare ribs stirred into

fruit? (11)

DOWN

2 Rubbish left in large receptacle, ultimately (5) 3 Making lion tend to be

slothful (8) 4 A furious clue type (6) 5 Edge forward injuring chin

(4) 6 Lacking bakery process,

we hear (7) 7 Outgoing hymn is like a

slump (11) 8 When breaking up, maybe

slept in before call (11) 13 So a brute becomes a vandal (8) 15 I retain shifts, not moving

state? (7) 17 Dirty little devil by the river

(6) 20 Metal, for example, turning

up colour (5) 21 One member from West is

a weakling (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Duties, promises (11) 9 Adult elver (3) 10 For a pittance (4,5) 11 Monocle (8) 12 Exotic fruit (4) 14 Very thin (6) 16 Clever device (6) 18 Oil cartel (initials)(4) 19 Bringer (of goods) from

abroad (8) 22 Ascribe (9) 23 Holy sister (3) 24 Popular summer fruits (11)

DOWN

2 Rubbish (5) 3 Lazy (8) 4 Spanning (6) 5 Creep forward (4) 6 Being in want of (7) 7 Of an economic slump (11) 8 Fragmentin­g (11) 13 Industrial vandal (8) 15 Lethargy (7) 17 Adulterate­d (6) 20 Faint trace (5) 21 Ineffectua­l person (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Treble Clef; 8 Ultra; 9 Emerges; 10 Earlier; 11 Scone; 12 Cartwheel; 15 Boast; 17 (M)entitle; 19 Organic; 20 Riser; 21 Rope ladder.

Down: 2 Rotor; 3 Brazier; 4 Eyebrow pencil; 5 Leeks (Leaks); 6 Fig (a)roll; 7 Isle; 8 Used; 12 Clanger; 13 Entered; 14 Hear; 15 Boor (Boar); 16 Tonup; 18 Taste.

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ACROSS DOWN PREVIOUS SOLUTION

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