2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Member’s some Liberal I’m backing (4)

4 European bidders wasted chicken feed (8)

8 Beautiful man said no unfortunately (6)

9 Religious house in earlier years (6)

10 Corrupt salesmen not easily identified (8)

12 Left-winger hurried pace (4)

13 Huge distance run in spacetravelling (6)

15 Opening in minor key on radio (6)

17 When in church for example (4)

19 Understood as text messages are? (8)

21 Some celebrated epic theatre show (6)

22 Original ally crossing boundary (6)

23 Intellectual brother in Rye? (8)

24 Desire in Eden disastrous (4)

DOWN

2 Home help going up country (5)

3 Financiers such as Thames & Hudson? (7)

4 Vehicle in ambush (3)

5 Take back rotten rope on ships round east (9)

6 Virtuous sort sat around at home (5)

7 Noble award given for organ piece (7)

11 Meet in French bar (9)

14 Made to suffer in wicked college (7)

16 Note proposal of love? (7)

18 Outcast one left in Devon river (5)

20 Lift, ultimately unreliable, yet to arrive (5)

22 Mucker seen in Spalding (3)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Branch (4)

4 Avian sustenance (8)

8 Handsome youth (6)

9 Abbotless monastery (6)

10 Anonymous (8)

12 Canter (4)

13 3.26 light years (6)

15 Fastening hole (6)

17 Wine delivery box (4)

19 Implied (8)

21 Illustrate (6)

22 Fundamental (6)

23 Highbrow (8)

24 Requirement (4)

DOWN

2 Populous land (5)

3 Money traders (7)

4 Public transport (3)

5 Regain after default (9)

6 Canonised person (5)

7 Aural structure (7)

11 Unexpectedly meet (9)

14 Scholarly world (7)

16 Strong feeling (7)

18 Banish (5)

20 Make ecstatic (5)

22 Chum (3)