TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Man grabs ref to, perhaps,
show sheer strength (5,5) 8 Left in just the natural
ability (5)
9 Exhausted, as a cricket
team just behind? (3,4) 10 Huge insect after male in
the morning (7)
11 Writer's difficult year (5) 12 To start a business, she's
put off operation (3,2,4) 15 Crowd, by the sound of it,
in store (5)
17 Devious girl pinching travel
document on the way
back (7)
19 Equilibrium shown by seaman withdrawing harpoon-like weapon (7) 20 Mistakenly pay HP
content (5)
21 Labour protest this will reduce production (4-24)
DOWN
2 Kingdom providing true
leader of men (5)
3 Eject the crowd (4,3) 4 Keep odd pens there,
temporarily (3,3,7) 5 Managed church farm (5) 6 Self-inflating action causing dreadful riot with Peg (3,4)
7 Resentment seen in
diplomat dropping round (4) 8 Celebrity offering two
notes (4)
12 Everyone during exhibition
is superficial (7)
13 Girl finds male with broken
heart (7)
14 Study final piece of testimony, and declare untrue (4)
15 Tramp in Soho, booted (4) 16 One giving blood, say, giving
name in entrance (5) 18 Mischievous child wanted
by the Spanish force (5)
COFFEE TIME
ACROSS
1 Brawn, muscle (5,5) 8 Aptitude (5)
9 Analysis (7)
10 Ancient woolly beast (7) 11 Durable (5)
12 Establish a business (3,2,4) 15 Collect, amass (5) 17 Cagey (7)
19 Amount of money in an
account (7)
20 Cheerful, merry (5) 21 Action whereby employees adhere strictly to the terms of their contracts (4-2-4)
DOWN
2 Domain (5) 3 Appearance (7) 4 During the period under consideration (3,3,7) 5 American cattle farm (5) 6 Action inflating one's selfimportance (3,4)
7 Be jealous of (4) 8 Celebrity (4)
12 Far from deep (7) 13 Common low-growing
shrub (7)
14 Contradict (4) 15 American vagrant (4) 16 Benefactor (5)
18 Drive (5)