TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Parade spied going astray

went AWOL? (11) 9 Oddly silly when

secretive (3) 10 Illusory red lake I’m

creating (9) 11 Everyone toted rubbish,

shared out (8) 12 Unable to hear fadeout (4) 14 No lies about the injury (6) 16 Habit shopkeepers are

keen to encourage (6) 18 Programme small, in what

way? (4) 19 Short abrupt sounds coming from Tom in rocky coast (8) 22 Charmed by the fourth

way in (9) 23 American exits house and

finds garden tool (3) 24 Trivial printout man

processed (11)

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2 Idly wandered left from

the charming scene (5) 3 Hearing German car get

into trouble (8) 4 Once a PC salesman went up to seize slippery creature (6) 5 Came by a roundabout

route to peak (4) 6 It’s clear I’d entered

sporting contest (7) 7 Set up table, dishes

placed (11) 8 Voluntarily assumed contrived films so deep (4-7) 13 Made cuts when ordering

wine (8) 15 Abridge Nash or Tennyson

content (7) 17 Chops up firm plaster (6) 20 Drained of colour, like a

female bird (5) 21 Herbal medicine contains

soothing agent (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Ceased to exist (11) 9 Artful (3) 10 Ethereal (9) 11 Apportioned (8) 12 Unable to hear (4) 14 Skin injury (6) 16 Habit (6) 18 Demonstrate (4) 19 Short and sharp (8) 22 Captivated (9) 23 Garden tool (3) 24 Immaterial (11)

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2 Bucolic scene (5) 3 Screen test (8) 4 Potato scraper (6) 5 Apex (4) 6 Clear (7) 7 Accepted (11) 8 Voluntarily assumed (task)

(4-7) 13 French white wine (8) 15 Abbreviate (7) 17 Plaster facing (6) 20 Very pale (5) 21 Aromatic ointment (4)