TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 I regain composure in the country (7) 5 Repairers have drying frame (5) 8 Dart to filming session (5) 9 A hundred left outside were agitated (7) 10 Watch tumbler with a monocle (8) 11 Low-down from certain footballer (abbreviation) (4) 13 Religious person ending daylight robbery (6) 15 Horse takes in barium and turns a vivid shade of blue (6) 18 Something planted brings yield, we hear (4) 19 Resort to become more sunny, we hear (8) 22 Strong women get flower stem initially (7) 23 For example, tell tale about vassal (5) 24 In this way, aristocrat almost elevated to glory (5) 25 First of the composer’s journeys (7)

DOWN

1 Antiperspirant unnecessary – it’s not a problem (2,5) 2 Bird is given one old shrike’s egg initially (5) 3 Hard-hearted hustlers all over the place (8) 4 Relaxed as a playful joker

(2,4) 5 Twisted scar forms a curve (4) 6 Wrote under sound building (7) 7 Means of receiving notice in Brazilian city (5) 12 Looming, a different Asian country (8) 14 Green stone red, male faked (7) 16 Notes for singers, it’s said (7) 17 In favour of pose, cheers! (6) 18 Bleak isle, time to invade (5) 20 Article by me is the subject (5) 21 Common sense of you and me in Paris (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 West African republic (7) 5 Drying frame (5) 8 Filming session (5) 9 Agitated (7) 10 Monocle (8) 11 Gen (abbreviation)(4) 13 Believer in God (6) 15 Blue pigment (6) 18 Apple pip, eg (4) 19 Resort adjoining Hove (8) 22 Women warriors in Greek myth (7) 23 Belgian city (5) 24 Plaudits (5) 25 Commutes (7)

DOWN

1 Easy (2,5) 2 Farmyard bird (5) 3 Callous (8) 4 Far from tense (2,4) 5 Curved shapes (4) 6 Circular domed building (7) 7 Sound broadcasting (5) 12 Country of the Gobi Desert (8) 14 Brilliant green (7) 16 Banknotes (7) 17 Cheers! (6) 18 Austere (5) 20 Recurring melody (5) 21 Common sense (4)