2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Shows up at a post office in Essex? (7)

5 Bad ones can be a write-off (5)

8 He’s not at home at the moment (5)

9 He and Carol, perhaps, sing it in church (7)

10 Being a learner, I enter a different form (7)

11 Start spending a little money on perfume (5)

12 The rest of the afternoon (6) 14 Not faithful? That’s a lie (6) 17 Vessels on the river, fast breaking up (5)

19 Jam ingredient! (7)

22 Rock music? (7)

23 One vegetable nothing more, at the banquet (5)

24 Name one uses, perhaps, outside (5)

25 Being terribly enraged can unbalance one’s mind (7)

DOWN

1 Happening to be the first lady of the New Testament (5)

2 It’s secret that he’s in the army (7)

3 It’s grim, and at the outset Ron is disheartened (5)

4 Cheats making a packet (6) 5 Visits leading dissident at prison in disguise (5, 2)

6 Stop the car at a kerb? (5) 7 Ethel is riding the pony (7) 12 Almost sure to have additional amount left over (7)

13 Try a new blend of tea with a will (7)

15 Don’t sing it? (7)

16 Didn’t go steady? (6)

18 Has a trip, maybe, to

Niagara (5)

20 A light colour (5)

21 Finish what one is saying and shut up (5)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Uncovers (7)

5 Monies owed (5) 8 Banishment (5)

9 Hymn tune (7)

10 Apprentice (7)

11 Smell (5)

12 Afternoon nap (6)

14 False (6)

17 Floating structures (5) 19 Trade (7)

22 Cradle song (7)

23 Feast, slang (5)

24 Girl’s name, familiarly (5) 25 Drive mad (7)

DOWN

1 Incident (5) 2 Confidential (7) 3 Severe (5)

4 Small packet (6)

5 Pays a visit (5, 2) 6 Estate car (5) 7 Shetland pony (7) 12 Excess (7)

13 Having a valid will (7) 15 Chorus (7) 16 Remained (6)

18 Drops (5)

20 Fossil resin (5)

21 Near (5)