TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Wild bears pry round river

for fruit (9)

6 Father almost gets a title

(3)

8 Group of students, 150

and a buffoon (5)

9 Two vehicles parked

outside a holiday home (7)

10 Nice men moving with energy, gaining high position (8)

11 Pretty poor content reveals

misprint (4)

13 True, I limp back up part of

my surroundings (6) 14 Tintin’s dance? (6)

17 Close to heart of knight (4)

19 Italy gains in strange

badges (8)

22 Do a turn round building (7)

23 A mask is said to be of

use (5)

24 That man’s into whist (3)

25 Quiet needed for sleep as

disrupted and irregular (9)

DOWN

1 In Peru, cheap pleated

frilling (5)

2 Patter round a new dog (7)

3 Unusually, see big journalist pestered by the press (8) 4 Style with right circle and

Ms Chanel (6)

5 Tale that’s spun by the

textile worker (4)

6 Sausage without the

Spanish cabbage (5)

7 Knocked over when

dilapidated (3,4)

12 One downcast when surrounded by whitish fence (8)

13 Girl inside border returned

with Jewish symbol (7)

15 Turning in prisoner in front

of grotto (7)

16 Partially ban karate in

Turkey’s capital (6)

18 Computer guru Bill’s ways

in (5)

20 A last revision for mapbook (5)

21 Objects to extremes (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Popular jam flavour (9)

6 Baronet’s title (3)

8 Group of pupils (5)

9 Home on wheels (7)

10 Distinction (8)

11 Misprint (4)

13 Social circle (6)

14 High-kicking act (6)

17 Close at hand (4)

19 Badges of office (8)

22 Circular building (7)

23 Be of help to (5)

24 That bloke’s (3)

25 Amorphous (9)

DOWN

1 Lace frill (5)

2 Long-eared dog (7) 3 Blockaded (8)

4 Elaborate art style (6)

5 Anecdote (4)

6 Curly cabbage (5)

7 Analysis (7)

12 Fence of stakes (8)

13 Jewish candelabrum (7)

15 Curved inwards (7)

16 Turkey’s capital (6)

18 Field entrances (5)

20 Book of maps (5)

21 Boundaries (4)