TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Great Dane wrecked

open-air restaurant (3,6) 6 Exclude bank, shortly (3) 8 Tool for removing top of

book (5) 9 Greek character takes

cakes up to bed (7) 10 Psychically move if figurative term allowed to rise (8) 11 Lots go to the centre for

aquatic creature (4) 13 Is Shakespearean king

turning from country? (6) 14 Writer Roald, one given a

flower (6) 17 Some are most irate to

wake from sleep (4) 19 Joined in but left some?

(4,4) 22 Cake politician found

inside salt container (7) 23 The man will have no word

of greeting (5) 24 Toper starts session on

Tuesday (3) 25 Game for five or ten, tug in

and out (5-2-2)

DOWN

1 River right inside camper’s

home (5) 2 Sharp-featured model

Laura, no good inside (7) 3 Plane’s pace creating despair around end of sortie (8) 4 Leave somewhere dry (6) 5 No marines achieving the

accepted standard (4) 6 Clubs in English city

making a collection (5) 7 Not entirely bad, I’m in a

strange country (7) 12 Lip in place again, over jaw

(8) 13 Bugs belonging to groups

(7) 15 Flyer left ale, surprisingly

(7) 16 Seconds regularly relent

(6) 18 One night in Paris with

Greenlander (5) 20 North ruined plant’s

protection (5) 21 Eminent guests back the

black marketeer (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Outdoor cafeteria (3,6) 6 Embargo (3) 8 Trimming tool (5) 9 Layer, level (7) 10 Move by psychic power

(8) 11 Carp-like fish (4) 13 Haifa’s country (6) 14 Showy flower (6) 17 Agitate (4) 19 Competed (4,4) 22 Light toasted cake (7) 23 Greeting (5) 24 Heavy drinker (3) 25 Blackjack (5-2-2)

DOWN

1 East Midlands river (5) 2 Gaunt, lean (7) 3 Flight velocity (8) 4 Abandon (6) 5 Accepted standard (4) 6 Factory set (5) 7 Country west of Botswana

(7) 12 Cheekiness (8) 13 Creepy-crawlies (7) 15 Brochure (7) 16 Alleviate (6) 18 Natives of the Arctic (5) 20 Barb of a rose (5) 21 Black marketeer (4)