TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Tool was returned after

distress (7) 5 West in this place? In

what place? (5) 8 Pushed and crowded

without leader (5) 9 Lures some apprentice,

surreptitiously (7) 10 Game which may be tried?

(8) 11 Cultivate land, distant

meadow first (4) 13 Inspection getting Scotland’s top university very agitated (6) 15 In place of flooring layout

(6) 18 Window frame made from

southern wood (4) 19 Soil you’d churned in a

repulsive way (8) 22 “Fatty tissue?” said Poe,

confused (7) 23 Inactive nitre compound

(5) 24 Boy, it’s said, should

prepare to pray (5) 25 The bridle strap, within

that context (7)

DOWN

1 The enemy is heard, and Dad’s made a social gaffe (4,3) 2 Crew boarding freighter

(5) 3 Pained, dad needs treatment! (8) 4 Architect by church gets

the tool (6) 5 Comedians’ intelligence

(4) 6 Former demand, say (7) 7 Racecourse where poems

composed (5) 12 Mark is eager, initially, to

settle in (8) 14 Priest turns to the Orient

for a break (7) 16 Unknown quantity in god

so push your luck (3,2,2) 17 Most uneven bit of wood

destroyed (6) 18 Bag containing new fast

food (5) 20 Spanish agreement the

day before riddle (5) 21 Kitty is game! (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Toothed cutting tool (7) 5 At what place? (5) 8 Compelled (5) 9 Attracts (7) 10 Restraint (8) 11 Agricultural unit (4) 13 Appraise (6) 15 Layout (6) 18 Shoulder band (4) 19 Hatefully (8) 22 Fatty (tissue) (7) 23 Chemically inactive (5) 24 Bow down to pray (5) 25 Into that (7)

DOWN

1 Social gaffe (4,3) 2 Rowing team (5) 3 Depressed (8) 4 Spanner (6) 5 Brains (4) 6 Cry out (7) 7 Surrey racecourse (5) 12 Populate (8) 14 Breathing space (7) 16 Attempt to outwit (3,2,2) 17 Most bizarre (6) 18 Eat between meals (5) 20 Colander (5) 21 Place to swim (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Self-esteem; 8 Dover; 9 En masse; 10 Maypole; 11 Tract (Tracked); 12 Resettled; 15 Basis; 17 Passage; 19 Gastric(k); 20 Today; 21 Spell-bound.

Down: 2 Envoy; 3 Ferrous; 4 Stereotypical; 5 Emmet; 6 Mustard; 7 (In)sect; 8 Demo; 12 Resists; 13 Lesotho; 14 Deny; 15 Bugs; 16 Serve; 18 Add-on.