TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

8 General worker's protection (7)

9 Beast is cad dismissed at the outset (5)

10 Right country for Caesar maybe (5)

11 Men a bit nasty on all sides (7)

12 Disclosure that gets one in (9)

14 Gullible person among heirs apparent (3)

16 Brown in Yalta now (3)

17 Wholemeal item: veg side produced with it (9)

19 Crack in a dry drain Yankee leaves (7)

21 Jack, posh, takes something cold in drink (5)

22 Canoe tossed around in sea (5)

23 Unfortunately the late runner? (7)

DOWN

1 Mashed potato's about right for meal (3,5)

2 Main course his speciality? (8)

3 First murderer one in prison (4)

4 Talk a little covering compound (6)

5 Teams up, arrives to collect bin (8)

6 Good man with the old eye problem (4)

7 Common sense to enclose right legal document (4)

13 I'm nested messily in river mud (8)

14 Dynamic riptides at sea (8)

15 Heralds retreat in outskirts of Paris (8)

18 Cake and a drink in heart of Burgundy (6)

19 Bath water has Virginia lifting leg (4)

20 Primarily treacly, tiny, overly pretty (4)

21 Man of convenience in America? (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

8 Comprehensive (7)

9 River mammal (5)

10 Ancient Italian (5)

11 Surrounding (7)

12 Right to enter (9)

14 Plant liquid (3)

16 Bronze (3)

17 Biscuit (9)

19 Endeavour (7)

21 Electricity (5)

22 The deep (5)

23 Sportsperson (7)

DOWN

1 Braised beef dish (3,5)

2 Coxswain (8)

3 Biblical killer (4)

4 Not acid (6)

5 Merges (8)

6 Ocular affliction (4)

7 Court order (4)

13 Deposit (8)

14 Mettlesome (8)

15 Ushers in (8)

18 Rich desert (6)

19 Stratford's river (4)

20 Excessively quaint (4)

21 Gospel writer (4)