TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Big mule travels to
country (7)
8 Absolutely pure gin Alec
ordered (7)
9 Style redcoat adopted (3,4) 10 Huge crowd in Bath or
Devizes (5)
11 Most foolish however (9) 14 Father takes two different
Spanish articles from dish (6) 15 Facial hair on ursine creature
died (5)
16 Flower occurs unnaturally (6) 20 On the run with problem skin
great! (9)
23 Former performance is
precise (5)
24 Widen B-road on two
points (7)
25 Rapier I throw around area
of grassland (7) 26 Hundred left before time,
evidently (7)
DOWN
1 Dog beginning to bite
bird (6)
2 Permitted Henry to be
destructive (6)
3 Passive miner taken
inside (5)
4 I wander back with distant
native (5)
5 Encourage chief boffin (7) 6 Consisting of blossoms
arranged for all (6) 7 European Commission maze about skin condition (6)
12 Force wife to take it
easy (5)
13 Look at pair involved in
shopping trip (5)
15 Shoot round exceptional
bird (7)
16 Look back in outskirts of
city that’s eerie (6)
17 Level with pole, including
pile (2,1,3)
18 Less restrained film
director (6)
19 In Copenhagen cyclists’
bureau (6)
21 Beer spilt about medieval
instrument (5)
22 Sailor took poem home (5) COFFEE TIME
ACROSS
1 Brussels country (7) 8 Cherubic (7) 9 Twenties style of
decoration (3,4) 10 Crowd (5)
11 At any rate (9)
14 Rice dish (6)
15 Facial hair (5)
16 Small spring flower (6) 20 Darting (9) 23 Accurate (5) 24 Enlarge (7)
25 Grassy plain (7) 26 Distinctly (7)
DOWN
’ 1 Variety of small hound (6) 2 Deadly (6)
3 Dormant (5)
4 New Zealand native (5) 5 Boffin (7) 6 Bloom-patterned (6) 7 Skin ailment (6) 12 Extract, seize (5)
13 Berlin river (5)
15 Very large European bird (7)
16 Eerie (6)
17 Equivalent (to) (2,1,3) 18 More savage (6)
19 Bureau (6)
21 Forerunner of the violin (5) 22 Domicile (5)
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
Across: 1 Aubergine; 6 Oar (Or); 8 Burns; 9 Sucking; 10 Measured; 11 Plot; 13 Adduce (deuce); 14 Geneva; 17 Sake; 19 Chitchat; 22 Nebular; 23 (B) alder; 24 Ebb; 25 Co-operate.
Down: 1 Album; 2 Barmaid; 3 Resource; 4 Instep; 5 (P) each; 6 Oriel; 7 Regatta; 12 Test case; 13 Absence; 15 Echidna; 16 Thurso; 18 Kebab; 20 Torte; 21 Bloc.