TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
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.