TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Bird spending hours of

darkness in strong wind (11) 8 Sensational story as body

enters water? (6)

9 Poem for boy, with

catch (6)

10 Flower girl? (4) 11 Accessible once more, though no deeper, possibly (8)

12 Nonsense surrounding lair,

seeking rat, perhaps (6) 14 Dance with two tins (6) 15 Giggling some time in the

future about exclamation

of disgust (8)

17 Average request for help

gets round (2-2) 18 Ignore hopeless area (6) 19 The cool, but not hot,

strange feline (6) 20 Very little payment for

farmyard grain (7-4)

DOWN

2 Eccentric predominates, having pretended to be someone else (12) 3 Flipper's call to those in

charge (5)

4 Get what's coming to

you! (7)

5 Enthusiasm got us in

trouble (5)

6 Light learnt to go off at

noon (7) 7 Unfortunately regrets alone in corner shop, perhaps (7,5) 13 Language into which

'shingle' translated (7) 14 Rust seen in shaft in the

middle (7)

16 Note it could make you

better (5)

17 Corn tied by woman, a

female (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Bird which sings in the

dark (11)

8 Cause liquid to fly

about (6) 9 Fourteen-line poem (6) 10 Eye's coloured part (4) 11 Began (talks) again (8) 12 Any gnawing animal (6) 14 Famous French highkicking dance (6) 15 Audible sign of

amusement (8) 17 Average (2-2)

18 Area (6)

19 American cat similar to a

small leopard (6) 20 Nourishment for poultry

(7-4)

DOWN

2 Aped, mimicked (12) 3 Coin side (5)

4 Acquire by bequest (7) 5 Enthusiasm (5) 6 Encased light (7) 7 Convenience retail

outlet (7,5)

13 Global language (7)

14 Be destroyed by chemical

action (7)

16 Carbonated soft drink (5) 17 Bundle of corn (5)