TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Department advocating matricide? (6)

5 Sailor straightened nets out (6)

8 American employer cleaned out client (4)

9 Get date with such a girl? (8)

10 Painstaking boss promises

to pay (8)

11 Flair shown in choice language (4)

12 Wood that might be softer (6)

15 One going on foot in Kansas and Alaska (6)

17 Sorceress a non-starter in desire (4)

19 Agent in misery as wounded (8)

22 Last couple escaping death in Great Plague (8)

23 One on spit where temperature famously varies (4)

24 A balloon in addition (2,4)

25 Saw for example in front of garden (6)

DOWN

2 Genesis performing selected songs? (5)

3 Cut short a card game (7)

4 NCO in mess with a hot snack (5)

5 Strange tales about a son in country albums (7)

6 Wit appears in Andersen sequence (5)

7 Again getting up, artist falls (7)

13 Army threat to sailors? (7)

14 Current king in Hamlet panned (7)

16 Bunch on move say gone (7)

18 Henry and Nick forming barrier (5)

20 Ancient Andeans in the money endlessly (5)

21 Batman's partner runs over

trash can (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Realm (6)

5 Not present (6)

8 Consumer (4)

9 Date chart (8)

10 Scholarly (8)

11 Panache (4)

12 Tree-covered land (6)

15 Open-toed shoe (6)

17 Restless longing (4)

19 Envoy (8)

22 Widespread disease (8)

23 Mongolian plain (4)

24 Also (2,4)

25 Proverb (6)

DOWN

2 Commencement (5)

3 Abbreviate text (7)

4 Tortilla chip (5)

5 Cartographic compilations (7)

6 Impression (5)

7 Famous waterfalls (7)

13 Tentacled creature (7)

14 Relating to heat (7)

16 Bouquet (7)

18 Bushy boundary (5)

20 Early Peruvians (5)

21 Small songbird (5)