2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

7

Sounds like a ring for the bird (6)

8 Speaker finds young marsupial about to swallow rodent (6)

9 Offer to curb new nuisance (4)

10 Piece of software among assorted bilge of New York City (3, 5)

11 Peruse a team struggling to find a gauge of distance (4, 7) 14 Journalist in luck, known eccentric to get cracking (7, 4) 18 Awkwardly mention the first medicinal cream (8)

19 Put under sedation on top of dirty carpet (4)

20 Brilliant mind, one among group of species (6)

21 Is only troublesome in a prying way (6)

DOWN 1

Current change of second letter is normal (7)

2 Take meal up for this woman (4)

3 Horse’s home unlikely to collapse? (6)

4 Porters’ rooms, eg, sold off (6)

5 Obstructed journalist on case (8) 6 Pitches for game (5)

12 Famous physicist taken round site nine (8)

13 In a bad way when legally beheaded! (7)

15 Word said to snapper in Lancashire, maybe (6)

16 Prayer from N Italy (6)

17 Sleeveless jacket may be legit (5)

19 Amount of medicine does change slightly (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

7 Baby swan (6)

8 Public speaker (6)

9 Annoyance (4)

10 New York City (3, 5)

11 Calibrated flexible strip (4, 7) 14 Apply yourself earnestly to work (7, 4)

18 Medicinal lotion (8)

19 Narcotic (4)

20 Brilliant brain (6)

21 In a prying manner (6)

DOWN 1

2

Average (7)

First name shared by authors Blyton and Bagnold (4)

3 Building for horses (6)

4 Beavers’ dens (6)

5 Hindered (8)

6 Cereal dishes (5)

12 Physicist known for his theory of relativity (8)

13 Badly (7)

15 Brie or Edam, eg (6)

16 Long sequence of chanted prayers (6)

17 Light sleeveless padded jacket (5)

19 Amount of medicine (4)