TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Musical term or legal

nonsense (7)

5 Aspect ultimately

tiresome in truth (5)

8 Item having Oedipal

strings attached? (5) 9 Brag about former

president meeting alien (7) 10 Sir means somehow to get

close shave (4,4)

11 Corset part to last (4) 13 Two islands that exploded

in South Seas location (6) 15 Everyone into lousy tune

(6) 18 10 tonnes in canvas shelter

(4)

19 Report of girl deceived by

a snake (8)

22 Warm female in a moral

tale (7)

23 Investigate deep-space

mission (5)

24 State position for singer

(5)

25 Confused agent books for

Circle Line? (7)

DOWN

1 Hostile once more with

good person (7) 2 Six-footer to be left with

Bible in AA (5) 3 MiGs hunt lawless arms

producer (8)

4 Stupid baronet plunged

into river (6)

5 Illegal tackle disgusting (4) 6 Jolly good city like London

(7)

7 Scruffy habitat Tyrone

contains (5)

12 Utensil destroyed US pea

can (8)

14 Little terror had to catch

new flu variant (7)

16 Local talk in citadel

unintelligible (7)

17 Possibly nicest crawler? (6) 18 Train on this running path?

(5)

20 Rope one so released (5) 21 Something blown up in

stereo box (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 At brisk tempo (7)

5 Cut gemstone surface (5) 8 Stage front (5)

9 Brass instrument (7) 10 Narrow escape (4,4) 11 Remain (4)

13 Polynesian island (6) 15 Narrative song (6) 18 Camping structure (4) 19 Large constrictor (8) 22 Congenial (7)

23 Explore deeply (5) 24 Dannii Minogue's sister (5) 25 Digression (7)

DOWN

1 Versus (7) 2 Immature insect (5) 3 Weapons maker (8) 4 Slow-witted (6) 5 Loathsome (4)

6 Funds (7)

7 Unkempt (5)

12 Cooking pot (8)

14 Small amount (7) 16 Idiom or vernacular (7) 17 Invertebrate creature (6) 18 Follow (5)

20 Gallows loop (5) 21 Reed instrument (4)