TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 One trained in a down-toearth way (11)

9 Pincers for kids (7) 10 Unusually pure Eastern

coin (5)

11 Dame concocted drink (4) 12 Scowled when Greek

leader was put down (8) 14 Joined together with small

stitched fold (5)

15 Put your hands round father

for a drink (5)

20 Winter missile to run out

of control (8)

22 Letters that Irishman sent

back (4)

24 Heather or another girl (5) 25 Suggest writing about

Italian river (7)

26 Chance commercial involved in nearly ninety rewrites (11)

DOWN

2 Pa’s about to pull up on the

road surface (7)

3 One right under tree (4) 4 Trouble arising when man

embraces flighty lass (6) 5 Rejected completely, say

(5,3)

6 Excellent embroidered

purse (5) 7 Hostile nation destroyed

Yemen (5)

8 Little Kenneth to perform

Japanese martial art (5) 13 Blackleg poet gets sword

sheath (8)

16 Company also in the plot

(7)

17 Is allowed little piece of

land (5)

18 Slip by the Spanish church

recess (6)

19 Cruel kind of sore (5) 21 Bulb lit up, one working (5) 23 Innkeeper shot in error (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Person jumping with a

cloth canopy (11)

9 Crab claws (7) 10 Currency unit of India (5) 11 Drink of fermented honey

(4)

12 Gazed crossly (8) 14 Adhered (5)

15 Drink of tea (5)

20 Clump of frozen rainflakes

for throwing (8)

22 Post (4)

24 Collective name for plants

of the heather family (5) 25 Intend (7)

26 Accidental (11)

DOWN

2 Bitumen (7)

3 Genus of maple tree (4) 4 Annoying problem (6) 5 Chucked away (5,3) 6 ___ Trouper, Abba

hit (5)

7 Adversary (5) 8 Japanese art of fencing

using bamboo swords (5) 13 Sheath for a sword (8) 16 Army unit (7)

17 Ait (5)

18 Go by (6)

19 Internal sore (5)

21 Big shallot (5) 23 Compere (4)