TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Shake round bone,

cleaning (7)

5 Crime for a king and his

prince? (5)

8 Holiday pages cut

short (5)

9 Salt fool’s taken with

speed (7)

10 Spot bearing mole (4) 11 Bath product in test, court

process (8)

13 Unite as one dialect, soon

translated (11) 17 Temperance, ruined by

Tories (8) 19 Great songstress keen to

make a comeback (4) 21 Paper-folding beginning

shortly around morning (7) 22 Total to speak (5)

23 Word of comfort in that

place (5)

24 Festival for north from

different direction? (7)

DOWN

1 Everybody in the rain asks

for leather case (6)

2 Meat inside short cutlery

item, or bathroom item (7) 3 Thought one unable to

hear, not loud (4)

4 When most workers won’t work, repairing Greek latrines (7,6)

5 This fights disease, and boy it

works! (8)

6 Mark, head of security, ain’t

stupid (5)

7 Born lazy, I dispensed with

sharp tool (6)

12 Reckon meatiest should be

minced (8)

14 Nasty slit in the Scottish

emblem (7)

15 Accompany English type

round capital of Cuba (6) 16 Outspoken aristocrat is

unproductive (6)

18 Union woman to stay round

top of road (5)

20 Weapons in pub room turned

up (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Bathing (7)

5 Causing fires deliberately (5) 8 Go, depart (5)

9 Chemical salt used in

fertilisers (7)

10 Behold (4)

11 Arbitration board (8) 13 Combine into a single overall

account (11)

17 Abstinence (8) 19 Distinguished female

singer (4)

21 Art of paper-folding (7) 22 Absolute (5)

23 At that place (5)

24 Of the Orient (7)

DOWN

1 Folding money-holder (6) 2 Cleaning liquid for hair (7) 3 Brainwave (4) 4 1926 event in support of

the mineworkers (7,6) 5 Blood protein produced to

fight infection (8) 6 Blemish (5)

7 Annoy (someone) (6) 12 Approximate judgement of

number (8)

14 Emblem of Scotland (7) 15 Accompany (6)

16 Arid (6)

18 Groom’s partner (5) 20 Hand weapons (4)