TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Service centre gets computer accessory, poor one (6,5)

9 Rye bristle caught in

lawnmower (3)

10 Left half a page for

minister’s duties (9) 11 Supervise, but fail to

notice (8)

12 Submerges creamy party

foods (4)

14 Torn duster was impaired

by neglect (6)

16 Carter went around large

hole (6) 18 Love to get friend a

gemstone (4)

19 Call Dora about town

bypass (4,4)

22 Sign of growth supporting island in the Bay of Naples (9)

23 Idle talk that could

explode? (3)

24 English sent modern form

of approval (11)

DOWN

2 Entirely depend on

joint (5)

3 New peer, Liberal, showed the way, then forced back (8) 4 Cause distress to public

school (6)

5 From the East, some

edible frozen fish (4)

6 Girl hugged by drunk

musician (7)

7 All those employed for our

cable distribution (6,5) 8 Nag for vegetable, and

another (11)

13 Plant Maori gun

elsewhere (8) 15 Assembled her pans to

make more tart (7) 17 Children, those down the

pit we hear (6)

20 Groan about liver,

perhaps (5)

21 Weight of cask? I looked

within (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Proverbial example of

poverty (6,5)

9 Barley beard (3) 10 Artist’s case (9) 11 Disregard (8)

12 Dunks (4)

14 Corroded (6)

16 Bomb hole (6) 18 Milky gem (4)

19 Town ’ s bypass (4,4) 22 Zodiac goat (9) 23 Airy matter (3) 24 Sanction (11)

DOWN

2 Metal joint (5) 3 Fought off (8) 4 Cause distress (6) 5 Golden fish (4) 6 Lone musician (7) 7 Workers, collectively (6,5) 8 Sauce to eat with roast

beef (11)

13 Marjoram genus (8) 15 Whet (7)

17 Children (6)

20 Harmonium (5) 21 Thousand grams (4)