TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Count on German city to include one, by and large (11) 9 Sporting circle? (3) 10 Dam stream around the

city (9) 11 Dreams popular game is

arranged outside (8) 12 Part of delicious food shop

(4) 14 Remained prim, we hear

(6) 16 After its use the written

word is lost (6) 18 Went by boat, we heard —

no, on a horse (4) 19 State – a right state! (8) 22 Plant providing source to

Robin Hood’s missile? (9) 23 Academic Spanish gentleman (3) 24 Saluting one cooked crustacean (11)

DOWN

2 Dance with sauce (5) 3 Tester old, a pitman (8) 4 Sets do upset cast (6) 5 Caesarean section

department (4) 6 On board, those opposite to snakes left with snakes! (7) 7 Halfway through Mastermind, I blunder (2,9) 8 I’m on new gift everywhere (11) 13 Flyer’s target destroyed by

Italian (5,3) 15 Principality where article

right in clutches of girl (7) 17 From centres of York smog,

blue decorative alloy (6) 20 Star lawyer gets in country

(5) 21 Cotton on short branch (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Intrinsically (11) 9 No goals (3) 10 Dutch city (9) 11 Conceives (8) 12 Food shop (4) 14 Endured to the end (6) 16 Mark remover (6) 18 Went by bike (4) 19 Little Rock’s state (8) 22 Sauce thickener (9) 23 Academic (3) 24 Dublin Bay prawn (11)

DOWN

2 Cuban music and dance

(5) 3 Adjudicator (8) 4 Flipped (a coin) (6) 5 District (4) 6 Climbing aids (7) 7 Part-way through (2,9) 8 Ubiquitous (11) 13 Songbird with a black head

(5,3) 15 Tiny country in the Pyrenees (7) 17 Gilt bronze (6) 20 Khartoum’s country (5) 21 Slender branch (4)