TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Measure dog hair needing a

trim? (7)

5 Store nothing in small

department (5) 8 Something worth having

when fixed (5)

9 Slender tower where

raiment woven (7) 10 Woolly bleating that ’ s

concrete (8)

11 Space where open area of

land put back (4)

13 Pistol turns to obtain piece

of gold? (6)

15 Cue on time (6)

18 Den's beginning to like

atmosphere (4)

19 In South America this constricts; Canada no different (8)

22 Stone needs tearing

apart (7)

23 Bump into the vessel (5) 24 Material model attached to

wimp (5)

25 Chance to see river mammal

in both ends of library (7)

DOWN

1 Destroy apartment

number (7)

2 Sap to be wicked

again? (5)

3 Our diets strange, becoming

stranger! (8)

4 Good to walk and

flutter (6)

5 Concluded Spanish gentleman had last of guacamole (4)

6 Act for each class (7)

7 Carry male to see Native

American pole (5)

12 Critical remark made by

reliable type with racket (8) 14 I’m in elegance offering scowl

(7)

16 Struggle to accommodate

elderly, terrible thing (7) 17 Lauren’s disaster,

imaginary (6)

18 Easy to get shiner (5) 20 Look after mystic runes (5) 21 Tornado, perhaps, to

twist (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 220 yards (7)

5 Bus garage (5)

8 Advantage (5)

9 Mosque tower (7)

10 Able to be touched (8) 11 Chamber (4)

13 Bite-sized piece of fried fish or

chicken (6)

15 Cue (6)

18 Animal’s den (4)

19 Giant South American watersnake (8)

22 Hard coarse-grained

rock (7)

23 Canal boat (5)

24 Berwick’s river (5)

25 Game of chance (7)

DOWN

1 Bowl over (7)

2 Conifer gum (5)

3 Competitor thought to have

little chance (8)

4 Bet (6)

5 Accomplished (4)

6 Act (7)

7 ___ pole, tribal symbol (5) 12 Critical remark (8)

14 Distortion of the face in disgust

(7)

16 Calamity (7)

17 Fanciful (6)

18 Beacon (5)

20 Hospital carer (5)

21 Breeze (4)