TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Month to prepare soup

with seafood (7) 5 Vagrants wasting time on

slopes (5)

8 One dimly lit, apart from

my house (5)

9 Wild boar in one African

city (7)

10 Unfairness when part of

actors ’ union (8)

11 Female soldier left after

Rex (4)

13 Shredding gadget sounds

bigger (6)

15 Finding American soldier in overturned cart is dreadful (6)

18 Parliament’s first piece of legislation brings agreement (4)

19 Tale of woe from new boss

over Conservative (3,5) 22 University has grain for

fabulous beast (7) 23 Choral work from remote

territory (5)

24 Put on clothes where you

live without promotion (5) 25 Net deposit that’s

undesired (3,4)

DOWN

1 Giving your views on love

and longing (7)

2 In a nutshell, utterly

reversed material (5)

3 Got restored to health

following expert (8) 4 Legislative body seen at

odds (6)

5 In Guadalajara, I left the

track (4)

6 Low toll for anchoring

point (7)

7 Tip over firelighter (5) 12 US student finds farm hens

roaming (8)

14 Attribute to a writer (7) 16 Type of glass at palace? (7) 17 Island tolerated by none (6) 18 Money hit hard (5)

20 Best old-fashioned party

(5)

21 Doctor’s second plant (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Tentacled sea creature (7) 5 Slopes (5)

8 Arctic dwelling (5) 9 African city (7) 10 Unfairness (8)

11 Female child (4)

13 Cheese shredder (6) 15 Calamitous (6) 18 Agreement (4)

19 Bid for sympathy (3,5) 22 Fabled horse (7)

23 Choral composition (5) 24 Apparel (5)

25 Score for the other team

(3,4)

DOWN

1 Giving a viewpoint (7) 2 Delicate silk fabric (5) 3 Acquired (8) 4 Governing body (6) 5 Horizontal bar (4) 6 Anchoring point (7) 7 Drop (liquid) (5) 12 First-year US student (8) 14 Assign (7)

16 Clear quartz (7) 17 Brunei’s island (6) 18 Britain’s currency unit (5) 20 Be better than (5) 21 Carpet-like plant (4)