TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Ruin almost stops theologian, old priest (5)

4 Storm disrupted Blur set (7)

8 Some Mexican a star in game (7)

9 Unknown state car tours Belgium (5)

10 Unseemly little demon catcher? (8)

12 Northern runner in St Helens occasionally (4)

14 Stoat in mere swimming (6)

15 Maureen with musical material (6)

18 Support nobleman in speech (4)

19 Christmas over: roast flipping pig (8)

21 Breather needed, then energy and thrust (5)

22 Comedian with complaint adding nothing (7)

24 Sick inmate nursing ultimately fatal illness (7)

25 Record books kept by eastern monarch (5)

DOWN

1 Fool, English, stops device working (7)

2 Some upturned vessel (3)

3 Come down from Clydesdale? (8)

4 Is it smoking jacket that becomes one? (6)

5 Picked up unappealing fruit (4)

6 Moderate's consumed with rage (9)

7 Irishman shunned by loyalists in civil unrest (5)

11 Flower worn by a colourful hero? (9)

13 Second, not first number is samey (8)

16 Expressed private resentment (7)

17 Wander about to obtain device (6)

18 Music having dotted feel? (5)

20 Goddess among the best (4)

23 Copper to start with tasty prune (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Celtic soothsayer (5)

4 Loud aggressive talk (7)

8 Form of rummy (7)

9 Caribbean dance (5)

10 Indecent (8)

12 Pennine river (4)

14 White fur (6)

15 Angora fabric (6)

18 Jetty (4)

19 Loser at Waterloo (8)

21 Fencing attack (5)

22 Marx brother (7)

24 Malady (7)

25 Gain admission (5)

DOWN

1 Cheat (7)

2 Rounded vase (3)

3 Alight from horse (8)

4 Club or school garment (6)

5 Tangelo variety (4)

6 Abstemious (9)

7 Urban disturbances (5)

11 Low-growing plant (9)

13 Unchanging in pitch (8)

16 Bitterness (7)

17 Gizmo (6)

18 Bohemian dance (5)

20 Wife of Hercules (4)

23 Share (3)