TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Waiting, watching, then striking AA documents out! (3,3,5)

9 Allow lease (3) 10 Reportedly save a prize

flower (9)

11 The malignant Left? (8) 12 Put one's name: Leo? (4) 14 Stone and barrel overturned to reveal spice (6)

16 Love the outfit in the

beginning (6)

18 Run from jazz turns (4) 19 Predict quickly about

unstable core (8) 22 Incisive time, right to

bewitch (9)

23 Oh, my! Endless amount of

resistance! (3)

24 Chef’s first to fleece customers, having fixed fee (5,6)

DOWN

2 One working on Chekhov,

for one (5)

3 Set upon speaker’s

admission of tiredness? (8) 4 Confuse Diana with the

king (6)

5 More than six balls (4) 6 Drawing in Nick and Gus,

surprisingly (7)

7 Deadline for entries sent long-distance with no name... (7,4)

8 ...is strangely this: drinks

may now be served! (7,4) 13 Teenager brewed

beverage (5,3)

15 In code, protocol sent up

weapon (7)

17 Fitting together of small

pieces of lawgiver (6) 20 Logan's struggling

onward (5)

21 Skin problem one's covering the start of neatly (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Cunning manoeuvres designed to thwart an opponent (3,3,5)

9 Allow (3)

10 Wild yellow flower (9) 11 Threatening, evil (8)

12 Put your name to (4) 14 Brown powdered spice (6) 16 Place where something

begins (6)

18 Move quickly (4) 19 Weather ___, news of

climate conditions (8) 22 Cutting (9)

23 Electrical measure (3) 24 Fee for service in a

restaurant (5,6)

DOWN

2 ___ Bruckner, composer

(5)

3 Attacked by surprise (8) 4 Be indecisive (6) 5 Finished (4) 6 ___ up, absorbing (7)

7 End of an offer period (7,4) 8 Instant when pubs unlock

their doors (7,4)

13 Chinese hot drink (5,3) 15 Bomb shot from a

submarine (7)

17 Design made from glass or

marble fragments (6) 20 The length of (5)

21 Skin trouble associated

with adolescence (4)