TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Yet ants crawl round iron

precaution (6,3) 6 Odd-shaped stationery

item (initials)(3) 8 Smallest slate smashed (5) 9 Pilot to flick blank page (7) 10 Unduly push through

American train track (8) 11 Island television service is

loud (4) 13 Impasse, record spread (6) 14 Mischievous child inside

cover, it’s clear (6) 17 Thousand chill with animals

(4) 19 Alarming disturbance on

the border (8) 22 Paint I’m smearing on the

drums (7) 23 Fast bike coming from

terrace, revving (5) 24 Initially doesn’t ignore

night noise (3) 25 Symbolically calculated by boy with broken rib cage (9)

DOWN

1 Fly round left of the sun (5) 2 Managing to include fifty

while getting broader (7) 3 Broke out during test at

study class (8) 4 Definitely not one far off

(2,4) 5 Playthings — two, yes

without centres (4) 6 Talk of second summit (5) 7 Some gentlemen fielding

in North London (7) 12 Cooks ring back to get

crustacean (4,4) 13 Confined small child in

top (7) 15 Look for expert with a

remedy for all (7) 16 Uttering motto (6) 18 Copper has little time for

food flavouring (5) 20 Apparently Richard

concealed the poem (5) 21 Just open lift for Asian

prince (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Mesh to catch a faller (6,3) 6 Return mail case

(initials)(3) 8 Fewest (5) 9 Part of a book (7) 10 American train track (8) 11 Large Hebridean isle (4) 13 Standstill (6) 14 Clear (6) 17 Little rodents (4) 19 Borderline (8) 22 Kettledrums (7) 23 Competitive runner (5) 24 Awful noise (3) 25 Type of equation (9)

DOWN

1 Concerning the Sun (5) 2 Blazing (7) 3 Study meeting (8) 4 Definitely not! (2,4) 5 Objects of play (4) 6 Give voice (5) 7 London borough (7) 12 Marine arthropod (4,4) 13 Confined (7) 15 Remedy (7) 16 Adage (6) 18 Curry spice (5) 20 Part of a song (5) 21 Indian prince (4)