TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Customer after torn rags
for jumper? (11)
9 Shotgun part is stolen (3) 10 Woolly jumper
counter? (9)
11 Laugh at free one (strange
clue) (8)
12 A bit of a buffet enhances
the garden party (4) 14 Concurred it ’ s a selfish
trait (6)
16 Let out tender model (6) 18 Constable’s medium soil
preparation (4)
19 Pasta sees raincoat
dancing on air (8) 22 Medical worker treats hip
badly (9)
23 Article hidden by
brother (3)
24 Its presence possibly
suggests tenacity (11)
DOWN
2 Collapse of trade is
assessed (5)
3 Results of running
repairs? (8)
4 Trouble arising when man
embraces flighty lass (6) 5 Inflater in shoe (4)
6 It’s clear I’d entered
sporting contest (7) 7 Location roughly south,
beware! (11)
8 Cocktail tool? (11)
13 Are Peter’s letters swapping witty banter? (8)
15 Royal Engineers said to go
free (7)
17 Females with unusual
ideals (6)
20 Work on nervous reaction
of the eye (5)
21 Large amount for Roman
Catholic service (4)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 Chirping insect (11) 9 Very warm (3)
10 Poor sleeper (9) 11 Laugh at (8)
12 Garden party (4) 14 Concurred (6) 16 Chartered (6) 18 Coloured paints (4) 19 Pasta tubes (8) 22 Healer of disorders (9) 23 Article (3)
24 Tenacity (11)
DOWN
2 Assessed (5)
3 Sews (8)
4 Trouble (6)
5 Bicycle tyre inflater (4) 6 Obvious (7)
7 Location (11) 8 Common household
tool (11)
13 Witty banter? (8) 15 Unburden (7)
17 Females (6) 20 Of the eye (5) 21 Large amount (4)
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
Across: 1 Restaurant; 8 Carve; 9 Demoted; 10 Polymer; 11 Dally; 12 Belatedly; 15 Trios; 17 Needles(s); 19 ChapatI; 20 Ensue; 21 Derogatory.
Down: 2 Enrol; 3 Thermal; 4 Understanding; 5 Armed; 6 Totally; 7 Edgy; 8 Cope; 12 Brigand; 13 Deepest; 14 Isle; 15 Tact; 16 Stair; 18 Loser.