TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES 1 This camper’s content to

run playfully (7) 5 Artists’ club capital (5) 8 Norse god with new point

(5) 9 Wow – Lily becomes tall

and slender (7) 10 Huge beast making the

plane unstable (8) 11 Monotonous apartment (4) 13 Notice there’s no going back – absolutely right! (4,2) 15 Signet crafted with

suggestions of colour (6)

18 Told fibs about overturning

deli (4) 19 Rile none about joke (3-5) 22 Feeling unwell after Mark

gets posting (7) 23 Give a name to major road

to Arab state (5) 24 Reportedly looks for

followers of a religion (5) 25 Eternal sea legs, maybe (7)

DOWN

1 Baby minders are easy

targets (7) 2 A rabbit runs when in love

(5) 3 God given the working

temple in Rome (8) 4 Sport expanding, though

not originally (6) 5 Some control elementary

part (4) 6 Illegal kick on limb (7) 7 Attempt on the way for

lovers’ meeting (5) 12 Remove from slide dog in

trouble (8) 14 Tapering monument blokes constructed around first of icons (7) 16 Passages offered by performing artists (7) 17 Puzzle of game in puzzling

(6) 18 Lighting providing fifty

amperes (5) 20 Duke perhaps found in

casino, bleary-eyed (5) 21 Just beats time signal (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Dart about (7) 5 Capital of Morocco (5) 8 Barb of a rose (5) 9 Graceful, slim (7) 10 Animal with a trunk (8) 11 Apartment (4) 13 Exactly (4,2) 15 Slightly colours (6) 18 Fibbed (4) 19 Quick joke (3-5) 22 Posting (7) 23 Emirates state (5) 24 Adherents of a Punjabi

religion (5) 25 Never growing old (7)

DOWN

1 Artists’ models (7) 2 Dote on (5) 3 Temple of the gods (8) 4 Sculling (6) 5 Actor’s character (4) 6 Illicit (alcohol) (7) 7 Assignation (5) 12 Force out (8) 14 Tall monument (7) 16 Hardships (7) 17 Baffling riddle (6) 18 Illuminating devices (5) 20 Aristocrat (5) 21 Apple seeds (4)