TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 As some pots of ice cream, not English manufactured (7) 5 Turn rotten and
explode (2,3) 8 Sulked by vehicle (5) 9 Direction finder’s range (7) 10 Spa hotel info is a gas! (8) 11 Conservative tale not
begun (4) 13 Become weary again, so
don’t work again (6) 15 It’ll increase reactions in a
frenzy, merely (6) 18 Overly moral person begins prudish remonstration in German (4) 19 Sounds like Neil and headless monarch in a praying position (8) 22 Sat upon a long step (7) 23 Bill’s car vandalised in
African port (5) 24 You first lied about the
harvest (5) 25 Taught rude tot to reform
(7)
DOWN
1 Speed zero in vehicle,
essential oil needed (7) 2 Quick attack capturing
pawn (5) 3 Second-rate dormice gather round Head of Ecology (8) 4 Hidden store ending just
for prestige (6) 5 Plucky pastime (4) 6 Speaker starts yelling at
private chapel (7) 7 Suspicious if backward and
retiring (5) 12 Mutually respond to certain movement ahead of junction (8) 14 Nasty slit in the Scottish
emblem (7) 16 Points to organ in country
(7) 17 Global body to have break
from public disorder (6) 18 Said to look, yes, unwell (5) 20 Popular mongrel has to
suffer (5) 21 As stated, dug deep for
intellect (4)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 Made from pottery (7) 5 Become mouldy (2,3) 8 Brooded (5) 9 Direction finder (7) 10 Lightest element (8) 11 Conservative (4) 13 Give up work (6) 15 Protein substance (6) 18 Overly moral person (4) 19 In a praying position (8) 22 Either side of (7) 23 Capital of Ghana (5) 24 Agricultural produce (5) 25 Coached (7)
DOWN
1 Aromatic laurel (7) 2 Brisk (5) 3 Average (8) 4 Prestige (6) 5 Amusement, pastime (4) 6 Art of speaking (7)
7 Implausible (5) 12 Mutually respond (8) 14 Emblem of Scotland (7) 16 Part of the United Kingdom
(7) 17 Civil disorder (6) 18 Ill (5) 20 Arouse (5) 21 Be wary (4)
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
Across: 1 Barometer; 6 Arm; 8 Bison; 9 Larches; 10 Elastane; 11 Asti; 13 Averse; 14 Atonce; 17 Cede (Seed); 19 Hang Seng; 22 Epi(c)tome; 23 Allot (A lot); 24 Tr(O)y; 25 Reputedly.
Down: 1 Bible 2 Restate; 3 Minutest; 4 Talen(o)t; 5 Rare; 6 Aches; 7 Missive; 12 Stagnant; 13 Ancient; 15 Needled; 16 Make up; 18 Deity; 20 Get by; 21 Sour(e).