TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Tea sets around landed

properties (7)

8 Set large eel? Almost, not

quite all (7)

9 Trooped round to get a

missile (7)

10 European root vegetable

(5)

11 Everyone recast act one

without warning (3,2,4) 14 Prime time for making

dried grass, so it’s said (6) 15 Type of light downpour (5) 16 Breathe out once healthy

(6)

20 Stray moon revealed by

scientific study (9) 23 Head back in charge in

military jacket (5) 24 Bread for tea with bit of

butter on, for one (7) 25 Interim alterations to

railway stations (7) 26 One foot in the door of

drunken hotel do (7)

DOWN

1 Actors’ perks (6)

2 Get a kick from most of

the small current (6) 3 Sound of bird, small, in dry

surroundings (5) 4 Contempt from some

initially given cereal (5) 5 Also I notice internal

Pernod flavouring (7) 6 Member to finish with an

old story (6)

7 Tired agent went round

shelter (6)

12 Stares through goggles without GovernorGeneral (5)

13 Singers, one entering basic

job, shortly (5)

15 Loose animal is turned over

to police department (7) 16 Thing entering Kent, it

yawns (6)

17 Head of army leaves country, feeling peckish (6)

18 Famous Lisa found

company in a state (6) 19 Milk and cheese thrown up

by 1000 – that’s a lot (6) 21 Implicit rebuilding of attic

(5)

22 Speak publicly about zero

tax (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Areas of housing (7) 8 Coagulate (7) 9 Aquatic missile (7) 10 Kind of turnip (5) 11 Suddenly (3,2,4) 14 Finest period (6) 15 Inundate (5) 16 Breathe out (6) 20 Space science (9) 23 Military jacket (5) 24 Indian bread (7) 25 Bus depots (7) 26 Footing (7)

DOWN

1 Accessories (6) 2 Delight (6) 3 Bird noise (5) 4 Contempt (5) 5 Liquorice flavouring (7) 6 Folk tale (6)

7 Drowsy (6)

12 Leers at (5)

13 Church singers (5) 15 Drooping (7)

16 Being (6)

17 Craving food (6) 18 Riviera principality (6) 19 Countless (6)

21 Implicit (5)

22 Declaim (5)