TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Look after learner in den (4)

4 Ruin agent set up by subordinate (8)

8 Worked out only daughter’s about five (6)

9 Get in boat that's wrecked (6)

10 Warn a looker about Scottish man (8)

12 Ferdinand possibly tense in unrest (4)

13 Fail to justify felon's first conviction (6)

15 Judge eats pork pie in break (6)

17 Starchy tuber small and sweet (4)

19 Murdered solitary Cavalier? (8)

21 Top fashion party in irrational fear (6)

22 Lightweight Meg struggles to contain sheep (6)

23 Answer SOS to protect finest building material (8)

24 In Skye a really revolutionary period (4)

DOWN

2 Keep away from an abyss (5)

3 Rat's head bothered Olivia in food (7)

4 Old man gripped in bad advice (3)

5 Reckless Laurel to do this often? (9)

6 Beast in river more fiery for Cockneys (5)

7 Sliced pie to me is best example (7)

11 Fit worker one providing gen (9)

14 This writer backed Iron Lady in power (7)

16 No song for a wake? (7)

18 Doctor one to talk interminably (5)

20 Samuel Butler's first American dance (5)

22 Empty talk in managing a side (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Hiding place (4)

4 Sully (8)

8 Cracked (6)

9 Acquire (6)

10 Warn (8)

12 Civil disturbance (4)

13 Creed or opinion (6)

15 Alleviation (6)

17 Potato (4)

19 Monarchist (8)

21 Soft felt hat (6)

22 Unit of mass (6)

23 Fireproofing substance (8)

24 Twelvemonth (4)

DOWN

2 Dodge (5)

3 Italian meal (7)

4 Father (3)

5 Impetuous (9)

6 River mammal (5)

7 Embodiment (7)

11 Stool pigeon (9)

14 Female ruler (7)

16 Cradle tune (7)

18 Male honeybee (5)

20 Brazilian beat (5)

22 Hydrogen, e.g. (3)