TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

8 Rubbish in Hayes we recycled (3-4) 9 Be at one match (5) 10 Cavalry right to wear stockings (5) 11 Angry behaviour? Strike attendant (7) 12 Duets Bird composed getting interrupted (9) 15 Evil area in Bastille (3) 16 Bloody awful performance: heads roll (3) 17 Financially-maintained partner imprisoned? (4,5) 20 Books with greeting in Shakespeare play (7) 22 Banquet in France initially and the Orient (5) 24 Some quasi-renewed rock singer? (5) 25 Friend comes to Rome rebuilt as capital (7)

DOWN

1 Procedure satisfied brick carrier (6) 2 Stick close to concierge in block (4) 3 Spooner's Lady Fortune for company in trouble (4,4) 4 Religious babe? Novice grabs her (6) 5 Tropical tree in archetypal myth (4) 6 Being in minor gas disruption? (8) 7 Cancel recording in genuine circumstances (6) 13 Hard mineral perhaps I ordered (8) 14 Humiliation of Democrat on personal trip (8) 16 Black insect in female garment (6) 18 Instigate frolic in gym (6) 19 Anoint working people (6) 21 Road through Liverpool an exit (4) 23 Farm plot up in Abercastle (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

8 Nonsense (3-4) 9 Concede (5) 10 Steed (5) 11 Run wild (7) 12 Discomposed (9) 15 Indisposed (3) 16 Bread item (3) 17 Mistress (4,5) 20 Desdemona's spouse (7) 22 Lavish meal (5) 24 Temptress (5) 25 Sicilian city (7)

DOWN

1 Way or system (6) 2 Huge carnivore (4) 3 Inefficient or helpless person (4,4) 4 Winged child (6) 5 Flat of the hand (4) 6 Living thing (8) 7 Annul as law (6) 13 Blue stone (8) 14 Ruin (8) 16 Woman's shirt (6) 18 On time (6) 19 Country (6) 21 Narrow street (4) 23 Land measure (4)