TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Pound to invest for a girl (5)

4 Celeb has no time to eat fish (7)

8 Mercurial man protects informer (7)

9 Dance can go badly (5)

10 Traps fish in the drink (3,5)

12 Release without charge (4)

14 Vagrant, stationary at first, trudges along (6)

15 Risk with church area not finished (6)

18 Singer in laryngeal torment (4) 19 First Minister tense, admitted by doctor (8)

21 Quartet into beer and bubbly (5)

22 Saw dog wearing lead (7) 24 Scholar say good with teacher (7)

25 Leonardo's outside to exploit rotter (5)

DOWN

1 Goods moved on during battle (7)

2 Rower from Oslo arrives (3)

3 Open late perhaps for quick buck? (8)

4 Back in a moment (6) 5 Somewhat brackish pool triangle (4)

6 Organ in ruined church: is it Bliss? (9)

7 Remove from camera sequence (5)

11 Northern gent with hair cut and close shave (4,5)

13 One cleaning company needs a litre in fuel (8)

16 Ben and Leon working for raise (7)

17 Thick fellow restraining ram (6)

18 Dumbfound in a puzzle (5)

20 Present from Nietzsche returned (4)

23 Leggy bird, English, with Greek character (3)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Vegetation (5)

4 Young pilchard (7)

8 Unpredictable (7)

9 Afro-Cuban drum (5)

10 Cocktail variety (3,5)

12 Costing nothing (4)

14 Walks heavily (6)

15 Accident (6)

18 Voice below soprano (4)

19 Caviare fish (8)

21 Vivacious (5)

22 Wise saying (7)

24 Boffin (7)

25 Parasitic insect (5)

DOWN

1 Cargo items (7)

2 Paddle (3)

3 Deer-like animal (8)

4 Short time (6)

5 Lamb serving (4)

6 Not knowing (9)

7 Delete (5)

11 Lucky escape (4,5)

13 Very dark grey (8)

16 Aggrandise (7)

17 Idiotic (6)

18 Flabbergast (5)

20 In this place (4)

23 Flightless bird (3)