TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Celebrity knocking vermin

back (4)

4 Sacred round bird's home,

I'm not kidding! (8)

8 Boss makes mistake with

worker, finally (6) 9 Policeman in his

element? (6)

10 Where Pakistan is part of

the Bahamas, I assume! (4) 11 Pack on land area

observing slaughter (8) 13 Korean tact cut out as response to aggression (7-6) 16 Poor lens care demands

cosmetic product (8) 19 Bill, man getting hurt (4) 20 Bureau returned from

Arctic? (6)

22 Design of a red hat (6) 23 Boy taken in by nosey

parker's con (8) 24 Crowbar non-starter,

always (4)

DOWN

2 Poisonous thing to do a lot originally round back of trees (9)

3 Judge downpour, and stop

it! (7)

4 Fast beast, male with

collection of wives (5)

5 Is a coin spinning in this

island capital? (7)

6 Mushy peas containing

one brown pigment (5) 7 Be prone to fib (3)

12 Fast creature, of

course (9)

14 From 10 across, spring festival at end of autumn (7)

15 Duck walk following leader of turkeys, nonsense (7)

17 A jib raised has another

name (5)

18 Allude to rising and

falling (5)

21 Remote flying squad was

set up (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Be the leading actor (4) 4 In truth (8)

8 Boss (6)

9 Policeman, informally (6) 10 China's continent (4) 11 Slaughter (8)

13 A fight back (7-6) 16 Make-up removing lotion

(8)

19 Continuous dull pain (4) 20 Business room (6)

22 Hat similar to a trilby (6) 23 Jail inmate (8)

24 At any time (4)

DOWN

2 Mushroom-like fungus,

often poisonous (9)

3 ___ from, stop (7) 4 Large group of wives (5) 5 Capital city of Cyprus (7) 6 Brown pigment obtained

from cuttlefish ink (5)

7 Be untruthful (3)

12 Animal for a jockey (9) 14 Oriental (7)

15 Claptrap (7)

17 Also known as (5)

18 Turn for information (to) (5) 21 Distant (3)