TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

7 Person gossiping could be

grandma’s clone! (13) 8 Religious official is nosey

at start of tour (6)

9 Stone and barrel overturned to reveal spice (6)

10 Fog passed by, we hear (4) 11 Rude, mischievous boy,

Eliot perhaps (8)

14 Vision of number certainly

accepted (8)

16 Border in hedgerow (4) 17 Bird producing average

rubbish (6) 20 Turn to make tea after

decay (6)

21 Festive plant with starchier

stem, decorated (9,4)

DOWN

1 Lack of mark seen on big

town (8)

2 Determined to find

camper here? (6)

3 Old coin, distant object (8) 4 Sign of ladies not

beginning (4)

5 Slowly inject some

antitoxins, tilted (6) 6 Sounds like top dog! (4) 12 Fatherly, possibly

parental (8) 13 In unison, or get the

disruption (8)

15 Stress the way to get bad

weather (6)

16 Property in English

nation (6)

18 A cook almost hurt (4) 19 Skirt brings word of disapproval at university (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

7 Gossip (13)

8 Minister of a Christian

church (6)

9 Aromatic kernel (6) 10 Befog (4) 11 Discourteous (8) 14 Ability to see (8) 16 Border, rim (4) 17 Bright talkative bird (6) 20 Gyrate, twirl (6) 21 Evergreen yuletide

decoration (9,4)

DOWN

1 Dearth (8)

2 Determined (6)

3 Old British coin (8) 4 Augury (4)

5 Drive home, implant (6) 6 Chinese dog (4) 12 Fatherly (8)

13 As one (8)

15 Pour through a colander (6) 16 ___ agent, seller of

property (6)

18 Be painful (4)

19 Ballerina’s skirt (4)