TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Fast beginning? (3,9) 9 Country has it in intellect

(7)

10 Mock Somerset town? Not

on (5)

11 Warms up missing starter

and devours (4)

12 Stiff charts reordered

before end of May (7) 15 Prisoner with dog to act

together (6)

16 The foreign temperature passing through country (6)

19 Left in pain by my old

pseudoscience (7)

21 Cars going round bends (4) 24 Free hire travel (3,2) 25 Odd upper-class child’s

nurse catches cold (7) 26 In tanker, must travel to

country (12)

DOWN

2 Start shaving heel on

cheese (7)

3 Feeble time, we hear (4) 4 Mean not to be in river (6) 5 Endless cross inside and

outside (8)

6 Money essential for baker

(5)

7 Monster hard to find – however, I should go after it! (4)

8 Cab seen breaking down, making non-appearance (7)

13 Shaggy ink cap, perhaps, to

expand greatly (8)

14 What may reflect Tom’s

viewpoint (4-3)

17 And the woman goes round

the balcony (7)

18 Call into question little

devil with broken gun (6) 20 Alter ‘alter’, but not now

(5)

22 Fool left in small bed (4) 23 Cards' winning serves (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Beginning of Lent (3,9) 9 England, Scotland and

Wales combined (7) 10 Deride, mock (5) 11 Chews and swallows (4) 12 Containing a lot of

carbohydrate (7) 15 Agree (6)

16 Baltic country (6) 19 Medieval chemistry (7) 21 Curved shapes (4) 24 Abandon inhibition (3,2) 25 Almost mystic (7) 26 Ashgabat's country (12)

DOWN

2 Blue-veined cheese (7) 3 Delicate, feeble (4) 4 Indicate (6)

5 Lying outside (8)

6 Bread mixture (5) 7 Abominable Snowman (4) 8 Time off sick from school

(7)

13 Cep or shiitake, eg (8) 14 Highway lane marker (4-3) 17 Covered porch (7) 18 Attack with words (6) 20 After a while (5) 22 Buffoon (4)

23 Expert pilots or drivers (4)