2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Guards never getting into hot water? (10)

8 Winner’s prize is at hand (4)

9 Falls for affliction that’s in sight (8)

10 Intended to get drunk in café (6)

11 Missile launcher taking a bow (6)

12 Duck in decline (3)

13 Poles are 5 (5)

15 Train or other form of transport (5)

17 Little boy takes some stick (3)

19 Equally certain to guarantee … (6)

21 … setting for pearl of such delicacy (6)

23 Stretched out as enacted (4, 4)

24 Party keeps on screening north-countryman (4)

25 Europeans with a role that’s differing greatly (5, 5)

DOWN

2 Address could make it rain too (7)

3 Doctor in study of fiend (5)

4 Diplomacy we hear changed direction (6)

5 Pet ran amok to net (6)

6 Moorland? (7)

7 Sound of money in hoard (5)

14 Winning one part of flight in rodeo (5, 2)

16 Examiner threatening king (7)

17 Shrink from giving soldiers third-grade fuel (6)

18 Things needed for activities (6)

20 Seafood left unfinished by rogue (5)

22 Framed by organisation (3, 2)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Scots border town (10)

8 Tree (4)

9 Cascade (8)

10 Person betrothed (6)

11 Bowman (6)

12 Bathe (3)

13 Catch (5)

15 Bus (5)

17 Angler (3)

19 Promise (6)

21 Edible mollusc (6)

23 Prescribed (4, 4)

24 Yorkshireman (4)

25 Well separated (5, 5)

DOWN

2 Big speech (7)

3 Devil (5)

4 Stitched (6)

5 Enmesh (6)

6 North African country (7)

7 Hiding place (5)

14 Bring together (5, 2)

16 Scrutineer (7)

17 Spring back (6)

18 Actions (6)

20 Rascal (5)

22 Build (3, 2)