TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Point made another way

(5-4)

6 Father goes back and forth

(3)

8 Form of social standing (5) 9 Whipped filling to create a

change (7)

10 First love gets a girl in

trouble (8)

11 Extra run in cowshed (4) 13 Humble college official

embracing me (6)

14 Two thousand in diamonds, maybe, for top-level meeting (6)

17 Relief from sea serpents

(4)

19 Bank on the Spanish producing some comic verse (8)

22 Coming across yours truly,

get in stew (7)

23 Rule concerning gin sling

(5)

24 Friend almost ashen (3) 25 Canoeists capsize with the

rest (9)

DOWN

1 Partly burn a chocolate

chip (5)

2 Practicality is in the

kingdom (7)

3 Slot a hip replacement in

here? (8) 4 Sea article, for instance

(English article) (6)

5 Be inclined to nurse (4) 6 Corrosion of foreign sand

bank (5)

7 Lowest form vermin following actress Sandra (7)

12 Country with virtually swell

song (8)

13 Invent a dumper that’s

different (5,2)

15 Boy needs one drink (7) 16 Aurally bends down like

branches (6)

18 Thieve an alloy, say (5) 20 Len in trouble with the

cloth (5)

21 CID’s broken record (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Durham ’ s region (5,4) 6 Father (3)

8 Group of pupils (5) 9 Whipped chocolate filling

(7)

10 Existing first (8) 11 Cow-house (4)

13 Degrade (6)

14 Apex (6)

17 Absence of effort (4) 19 Bad poetry (8)

22 Business assembly (7) 23 Govern (5)

24 Buddy (3)

25 End (9)

DOWN

1 Mexican chip (5) 2 Facing of facts (7) 3 Medical centre (8) 4 Greek sea (6)

5 Be inclined (4) 6 Corrode (5) 7 Furthest down (7) 12 Sofia’s country (8) 13 Concoct (5,2) 15 Vermouth cocktail (7) 16 Branches (6) 18 Misappropriate (5) 20 Cloth from flax (5) 21 Circular plate (4)