TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

8 Plant a big one criminally

(7)

9 Root shown in puzzles we

designed (5)

10 Eastern gale blasted bird

(5)

11 Musicians playing in Strand

(7)

12 Get in RADA to become

such a player? (9)

15 Hero, initially denied,

scrambled eggs (3)

16 Fish and chips one decides

to start with (3)

17 Watch perhaps for

American magazine article (9)

20 Bird in pub now large (4,3) 22 Cruel to redistribute riches

(5)

24 Escape from aggressive

Vader (5)

25 See code is changed by

European (7)

DOWN

1 Aim to protest (6) 2 Some virago gets

awestruck (4)

3 Inn there riotous? It's

natural (8)

4 Girl friend in Paris for

sausage (6) 5 Large region in Matsuida

oddly ignored (4)

6 Ed, German, walloped

policeman abroad (8) 7 Buzzing bee in a closefitting hat (6)

13 Senior citizen plants tree

on isle (8)

14 Emperor on plane eating

old nuts (8)

16 Horse and trap in The

Matrix? (6)

18 Month in which boy makes

complaint (6)

19 The French included in

balanced side (6) 21 Honest old writer (4) 23 Cook some spinach

effectively (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

8 Waxy-flowered plant (7) 9 Stockholm native (5) 10 American symbol (5) 11 Forsake (7)

12 Serious actor (9)

15 Fish spawn (3)

16 Atlantic catch (3) 17 Clock, e.g. (9) 20 Nocturnal hunter (4,3) 22 Profit or money (5) 24 Shirk (5)

25 Bishop's district (7)

DOWN

1 Thing (6)

2 Very eager (4) 3 Integral (8)

4 Meat product (6) 5 Eastern continent (4) 6 French copper (8)

7 Skullcap (6)

13 Civic dignitary (8) 14 Loser at Waterloo (8) 16 Thread spider spins (6) 18 Ailment (6)

19 Football team (6) 21 Candid (4)

23 Culinary artiste (4)