Business Day

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Impermeabl­e footwear, designed without publicity (10) 8 The very best oil stirred in to garlic mayonnaise (5) 9 In context, remembered as severe (7) 10 Moaners wrecked Italian resort (3,4) 11 Man accepts notice of gas (5) 12 Yon MP used silly nom de plume (9) 15 Caught with angling equipment and basket (5) 17 Quits about adverts (7) 19 Elks can somehow become loose (7) 20 Stage of developmen­t where yours truly’s in the past (5) 21 Demoralise the sardine by cooking! (10)

DOWN

2 A foot sore going to seed (5) 3 Bewitching stare from no good-looker? (4,3) 4 Skip round English review with the lion’s share (13) 5 Animal inside pottery (5) 6 You’re at liberty to have it (7) 7 Eager to mourn loudly (4) 8 Even Pablo stops, too (4) 12 Homework help was settled in advance (7) 13 Mixed retsina is more unpleasant (7) 14 Some are too slow for the city (4) 15 Sac found in icy stadium (4) 16 Enjoys hawk film that follows large one (5) 18 Elegance shown by good people (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Impervious to liquid (10) 8 Garlic mayonnaise (5) 9 Drastic (7) 10 Resort on the Italian Riviera (3,4) 11 Rare noble gas (5) 12 Alias (9) 15 Fishing basket (5) 17 Gives up (7) 19 Abate (7) 20 Adult butterfly (5) 21 Deter (10)

DOWN

2 Fruit of the oak (5) 3 Malevolent gaze (4,3) 4 Greater part (13) 5 Riverbank animal (5) 6 Autonomy (7) 7 Acute (4) 8 Additional­ly (4) 12 Already purchased (7) 13 More horrid (7) 14 Capital of Norway (4) 15 Internal sac (4) 16 Admires (5) 18 Divine mercy (5)

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