Business Day

TAKE A BREAK

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

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ACROSS CRYPTIC CLUES

1 Order plain clothes officers back to gallery (7)

5 Damp smell yours truly had (5)

8 Joins golfers playing here (5)

9 Me with the monarch to wander (7)

10 Keenness from king entering in urban style? (8)

11 Poem sung about Zulu being idle (4)

13 Wordy novel about society makes you sleepy (6)

15 At first Michael Caine ruined movies (6)

18 Puncture wound rabbit eventually conceals (4)

19 Large beast and two insects circling husband (8)

22 Unapprecia­tive person lighting fire here? (7)

23 Fur bachelor found in auction (5)

24 Surrealist in modern studio (5)

25 Pressure on after time in war zone (7)

DOWN

1 Dud keeping everyone up: right numpty (7)

2 Kid goat occasional­ly seen in dance (5)

3 Busts are wobbling beyond comprehens­ion (8)

4 NY Times almost spreading hatred (6)

5 Stop scratching head and vote for fraud (4)

6 Intervene: give drugs to eliminate cold (7)

7 The German given times for race (5)

12 Landlord in silence turned key (8)

14 Figure takes trip through derelict Acton (7)

16 Get leader away from Kiev in discomfort (7)

17 Charge around gym and show remorse (6)

18 Energy consumed by huge English fawn (5)

20 Ultimate tribute about astronaut's fourth circuit (5)

21 Italian dish not quite finished (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Lay down the law (7)

5 Muggy (5)

8 Connects (5)

9 Ramble aimlessly (7)

10 Eagerness (8)

11 Unwilling to work (4)

13 Somnolent (6)

15 Picture house (6)

18 Grasp with teeth (4)

19 Biblical monster (8)

22 Thankless wretch (7)

23 Heraldic black (5)

24 Artist Max (5)

25 Playhouse (7)

DOWN

1 Witless person (7)

2 Afro-Cuban drum (5)

3 Arcane (8)

4 Hostility (6)

5 Deceptive trick or scam (4)

6 Arbitrate (7)

7 English county town (5)

12 Publican (8)

14 Eight-sided shape (7)

16 Accomplish (7)

17 Confess sins (6)

18 Light brown (5)

20 Planetary path (5)

21 Bygone days (4)

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