TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 It could be piano phrase, it

could be (7)

5 Employee with time to

entice (5)

8 Hundred in desperate

hope for a time (5) 9 Unplaced horse too organised (4-3)

10 A particular form of

hostility (8)

11 Bird that’s highly strung? (4) 13 Jude worryingly retains audio-visual form of paramnesia (4,2)

15 Put on stone before

getting old (6)

18 In Walsall, an empty road

(4) 19 A banker’s parlous state (8) 22 Chef’s starter covered in mashed potato provides a winter warmer (7) 23 Machiavelli laid back in

French city (5) 24 Countryside river runs a

length past university (5) 25 Beef, perhaps, is food for

radical? (3,4)

DOWN

1 Horse is bipedal, strangely

(7)

2 Odd heron in French river

(5)

3 Commercial he vies over is

likely to stick (8)

4 Add salt in winter, perhaps

(6)

5 Time to request piece of

work (4)

6 Time for showing grief,

they say (7)

7 Metal, for example, turning

colour (5)

12 Went first after beginning

to be frightened (8)

14 First of the month for each

berry (7)

16 Local form of speech, from

new citadel (7)

17 Northern consumer is more

tidy (6)

18 Alter arrangement some

time in the future (5) 20 Keep pound concealed for

ointment (5)

21 Area left after company

mined fuel (4)