TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Falsely accuses pale European in part of contract (6,6)

9 Studying garden I

cultivated (7)

10 Bandit took some of the

same again (5) 11 Smoother lifestyle (4) 12 Person inwardly breaking

nose, pixie (7)

15 Intimidate adolescent Wild

West character (6) 16 Insect might take to the air (6) 19 Part of the body with

awfully bad prediction (7) 21 Volcano found in Phuket,

naturally (4)

24 Dance beat with energy (5) 25 Drink in the breeze (7) 26 Fail to understand, and

reprint items wrongly (12)

DOWN

2 Everybody in revue is

superficial (7)

3 A group of detectives is

bitter (4)

4 Power unit raised in benign

environment (6)

5 Left Dorset resort without

a guiding light (8)

6 Up to the moment

peacekeepers fired up (5) 7 Deity with painful back (4) 8 Match official in step with

book's introduction (7) 13 Try very hard to travel to

urban area (2,2,4) 14 Extremely dingy and

unpleasant house (7) 17 Weariness from wretched

ague fit (7)

18 Reportedly use a bike to

sell door-to-door (6) 20 British leader has

responsibility for extra pay (5) 22 Staunch supporter of a

plant (4)

23 Automobile by quiet fish (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Part of a contract (6,6) 9 Location of the Madejski

Stadium (7)

10 As above (5)

11 Dossier (4)

12 Individually (7)

15 Character in a western (6) 16 Short-lived insect (6) 19 Lower section of an insect (7) 21 Active volcano in eastern

Sicily (4)

24 Ballroom dance (5)

25 Air current (7)

26 Get hold of the wrong end of

the stick of (something) (12)

DOWN

2 Far from deep (7)

3 Any non-alkali (4)

4 Motor in a car (6) 5 Guiding heavenly body (8) 6 As far as (5)

7 Aphrodite's son (4)

8 Book's introductory text (7) 13 Act with great enthusiasm

(2,2,4)

14 1980s American TV soap

opera (7)

17 Exhaustion (7)

18 Hawk (6)

20 Added incentive (5) 22 Arise (from) (4) 23 Common freshwater fish (4)