TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Beats parasite in some

chicken? (9)

6 Some superfluous

complaint (3)

8 Rank society (5)

9 Elm Bert chopped up for

quiver (7)

10 Bearing gifts, we hear (8) 11 Reportedly top dog (4) 13 Solution worked out right,

as new (6)

14 A child’s horse nuzzling into

his food (6)

17 Take home light material,

say (4) 19 See irate characters in

restaurants (8) 22 Respect shimmering

ghost (7)

23 Carefree, topless and

lissom (5)

24 Missing last part of top

copy (3)

25 Exercise enrols new

dynamic staff (9)

DOWN

1 Wretched soldier

essentially raised flag (5) 2 Strip under unusual ship (7) 3 Wizard’s silly errors outside

church (8)

4 Entire production’s finale

in it (part of play) (6)

5 Part of ship moving

through wake elegantly (4) 6 Thread's black, in

flames (5)

7 Wasteful instruction to

reduce consumption? (7) 12 Beaten later in court

battle (8)

13 Forgetfulness leaves men

confused in the East (7) 15 Knitted singlet to

sparkle (7)

16 Race for job (6)

18 Article on setter’s

subject (5)

20 Turn trade without a

penny (5)

21 Animal companions go up

the stair (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Chicken leg (9) 6 Contagious disease (3) 8 Military command (5) 9 Quake (7) 10 Attendance (8) 11 Chinese dog (4) 13 Rejoinder (6)

14 Burns Night dish (6) 17 After all deductions (4) 19 Bistros, cafes etc (8) 22 2015 Bond film (7) 23 Agile (5)

24 Animal very like a

human (3) 25 Employees (9)

DOWN

1 Hang down wearily (5) 2 Disrobe (7)

3 Magician (8) 4 Unbroken (6) 5 ___ over, capsize (4) 6 Dietary roughage (5) 7 Futile (7)

12 1815 battle (8) 13 Condition causing loss of

memory (7)

15 Shimmer (7)

16 Job, profession (6) 18 Subject, topic (5) 20 Bout (5)

21 Dance movement (4)