TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Go fast: get to river after second (5) 4 Bach piece from feline in tattered coat (7) 8 Northerner ogre hurt to give up ghost (7) 9 Strait-laced soldier getting in free (5) 10 Count said to be disguised as caretaker (9) 11 Some venerate traitor (3) 12 Spring border in chaos? (6) 14 One going after drink (6) 17 Apprehend in Downton Abbey (3) 19 Hoses out a mucky building (9) 22 Teacher back in one British pub (5) 23 Creature runs riot in Amherst (7)24 Cool sort redesigned PE shirt (7) 25 Official getting on with original sinner (5)

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1 Wise men caught in wizardry (5) 2 Stalin foe to walk on air (7) 3 Staff, English, love equestrian event (5) 4 He sits to compose academic essay (6) 5 International hotel supports my city (7) 6 Wind up in Orange River (5) 7 Reviewer of books? (7) 12 Royal about in military display (7)13 Boastful person is to get bashed (7) 15 Go back and forth in NASA craft (7) 16 Biblical beauty in Paris is that woman? (6) 18 Live dance music from Monk or Bird (5) 20 Poet in Rhodes at the beginning (5) 21 Mysterious European country sent up (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Engine (5) 4 Musical composition (7) 8 Tynesider (7) 9 Fixed (5) 10 Guardian (9) 11 Deserter (3) 12 Pandemonium (6) 14 Pursuer (6) 17 Arrest (3) 19 Kentish dwelling (9) 22 Jewish scholar (5) 23 Pet rodent (7) 24 Trendy urbanite (7) 25 Superman actor (5)

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1 Sorcery (5) 2 Russian leader (7) 3 Cowboy show (5) 4 Degree dissertation (6) 5 Greek port (7) 6 Fury (5) 7 Accountant (7) 12 Sovereign (7) 13 Conceited type (7) 15 Commute (7) 16 Female name (6) 18 Jazz subgenre (5) 20 Iliad writer (5) 21 Uncanny (5)