Business Day

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Preserve business graduate found in tree (6)

5 Swallow's path? (6)

8 Quack to keep ducks closer? (4)

9 Attendant's uniform in my bank (8)

10 Suction broken by very posh bloke (8)

11 Break in card game (4)

12 Massage for chesty grasscutte­r (6)

15 Lightweigh­t don yob thrashed (6)

17 Vagrant brought in who boozes (4)

19 Hunk admits vice naughty (8)

22 Go berserk with anorak and jumper? (8)

23 Test old lover in the morning (4)

24 Such a gathering as might raise the spirits? (6)

25 Response from wife in tortuous snare (6)

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2 Wander over island for the language? (5)

3 Fruit and a soft white cheese? No thanks! (7)

4 Obama cautious holding former colony (5)

5 Stick short rat tails on pig (7)

6 Yoga pose reformed louts (5)

7 The colour 'de la mer' in translatio­n? (7)

13 Un-British bachelor composed hymn tune (7)

14 Doreen's bad back (7)

16 Male set explosive for slugs (7)

18 Heart perhaps that's stopped in church? (5)

20 Woman: one taking bow? (5)

21 Roofing stone is rubbish (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Prepare for burial (6)

5 Oesophagus (6)

8 Portal (4)

9 Monarch's adviser (8)

10 Minor peer (8)

11 Crack (4)

12 Reaping tool (6)

15 Unimportan­t person (6)

17 Itinerant person (4)

19 Fiendish (8)

22 Large marsupial (8)

23 Academic assessment (4)

24 Spirituali­st's meeting (6)

25 Solution (6)

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2 NZ aboriginal (5)

3 Yellowish-orange shade (7)

4 Asian peninsula (5)

5 Greedy eater (7)

6 Sacred water lily (5)

7 Precious stone (7)

13 Lutheran song (7)

14 Sanction (7)

16 Rounds (7)

18 Church keyboard (5)

20 Stringed instrument (5)

21 Schedule (5)

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