TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 A seaman can be so skilled (4)

4 Bold? Nowhere near as much, accepting ecstasy (8)

8 Duck small victim for large hawk (6)

9 Somehow agree about good music (6)

10 Say HMS Victory signals with it (8)

12 Ultimate in consular assistance for Sally (4)

13 Models drunk often? The opposite (6)

15 Mantel terribly keen (6)

17 Some bad American Bible character (4)

19 Satan with aim to create island (8)

21 Book published that is about sultanate (6)

22 Colour in like circle (6)

23 Author at game with cricket side in form (8)

24 London hotel: it's a cracker (4)

DOWN

2 Man in lab is working (5)

3 Furiously angered? (7)

4 Insect necessarily airborne? (3)

5 Citadel in a harvest on poor soil (9)

6 Time for both sides to grab beer (5)

7 Stop stoat in wriggling (7)

11 Severely restrict one acting badly on line (9)

14 Red nose treated in second (7)

16 Follow winding course with some cats outside (7)

18 Impressionist one entering mountain (5)

20 Some from Bodmin go to bar (5)

22 Cool northern watering hole (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Competent (4)

4 Intrepid (8)

8 Sea eagle (6)

9 Bob Marley genre (6)

10 Admiral's vessel (8)

12 Sudden attack (4)

13 Hardly ever (6)

15 Bemoan (6)

17 Eve's man (4)

19 Australian state (8)

21 Nation on Borneo (6)

22 Dark blue dye (6)

23 Five-sided polygon (8)

24 Ostentation (4)

DOWN

2 Culinary herb (5)

3 Very irate (7)

4 Use air transport (3)

5 Parthenon locale (9)

6 Alcoholic drink (5)

7 Terminus (7)

11 Leg tendon (9)

14 Sanction (7)

16 Wander aimlessly (7)

18 French painter Claude (5)

20 Metal brick (5)

22 Hostelry (3)