TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Washington holds one ’ s

record (4)

4 Appalling child read full

extract (8)

8 Clear to enter river in

Knock? (6)

9 Material about coil wound

(6)

10 Applaud role reversal?

Such tosh! (8)

12 Haddock’s last fish in boat's

bottom (4)

13 The old chaps meeting one

Arab (6)

15 Lizards in Nicaragua

somehow avoiding car (6) 17 Robert invests million: is it

mine? (4)

19 Bribe given to a

disreputable house (8) 21 Rage shown by monarch:

tough old bird (6)

22 Good composer in The

Stones? (6) 23 Combustible heap seen

over the mountains (8) 24 Still all square (4) DOWN 2 What croupier might say is

perfect? (5)

3 Cold dropout in food shop

(7) 4 Some Indo-European

female (3)

5 Old love knitted nice top

that proves rule? (9) 6 Who might one want to

exterminate? (5)

7 Leprous relative Jane

edges away! (7)

11 Pay back bruiser with me

given thrashing (9) 14 English coy about record in

study (7)

16 Ignorant girl has the goods

(7)

18 Busy individual penning

lines for stunner (5) 20 Robes expanding to

disguise fat (5) 22 Reversed slump in

American petrol (3)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS 1 Circular plate (4) 4 Horrible (8)

8 Ridicule (6)

9 Coarse cotton (6) 10 Balderdash (8)

12 Fall (over) (4)

13 Sana'a citizen (6) 15 Crested reptile (6) 17 Cased weapon (4) 19 One-storey home (8) 21 Water heater (6)

22 Small rock fragments (6) 23 Range in France and Spain

(8)

24 Level (4)

DOWN

2 Exemplary (5) 3 Takeaway outlet (7) 4 She-rabbit or deer (3) 5 Omission (9)

6 Robot with staccato voice

(5)

7 Soiled (7)

11 Indemnify (9)

14 Green science (7) 16 Oblivious (7)

18 Beautiful female (5) 20 Grossly overweight (5) 22 Helium, e.g. (3)