TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Snitch at school? (6) 4 Refuse father ’ s drink (4,2) 8 Do some by end of day (5) 9 Quite a few cut off by a

beginner (7)

10 Second vehicle permit is a

bright red colour (7) 11 Android British in origin (5) 12 Washing-up liquid put off

man (9)

17 Capone, individual in

solitary confinement (5) 19 Company representative undertaking to produce a cosmetics case (7) 21 Revolutionary section of

plant, it’s said (7)

22 Crazy device for training

babies (5)

23 Sailor to achieve

objective (6)

24 Fuss about daughter, much

loved (6)

DOWN

1 I’m to ask for force (6) 2 Send on for a group of

patients (7)

3 Two boys of high birth (5) 5 Harmful commercial

poem (7)

6 Brush, or brushwood? (5) 7 Well-mannered European

swallows it (6) 9 Accountant during trial is

awfully sarcastic (9) 13 React badly to the French

molasses (7)

14 Turncoat, foul rat, one to

run (7)

15 Bird’s standard

nonsense (6) 16 Remained sober, by the

sound of it (6) 18 Neatness in class (5) 20 Sulked by motorcycle (5) COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Apprise (6)

4 Forgo (an opportunity)

(4,2)

8 Celebration (5)

9 A number of (7)

10 Miss ___, Cluedo suspect

(7)

11 Mechanical person (5) 12 Cleanser (9)

17 By yourself (5)

19 Concise (7)

21 Drastic, thorough (7) 22 Baby’s loo (5)

23 Aim, goal (6)

24 Idolised (6)

DOWN

1 ___ on, intrude (6) 2 Ahead (7)

3 Kingly, regal (5) 5 Detrimental (7) 6 Brushwood (5)

7 Being socially correct (6) 9 Bitingly humorous (9) 13 Dark syrup (7)

14 Disloyal person (7) 15 Bright talkative bird (6) 16 Endured to the end (6) 18 Arrange, make tidy (5) 20 Brooded (5)