2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Daily Mail’s leader to delight? (5) 4 Covering man carrying weapon (7)

8 Trio taken short in country road, finding loo (7)

9 Large specimen unopened (5) 10 Swimmer good with two others (8)

12 Supremo over in British ship (4)

14 Transgress with mission (6) 15 Spy to admit one’s easily influenced (6)

18 Philip beginning to examine tweet (4)

19 Nice man noir muse destroyed? (8)

21 Pottery expert invests pound (5)

22 Country actor drunk I admired at first (7)

24 Character in German city emptied crate (7)

25 Work force in London seen over time (5)

DOWN

1 One clog split in European city (7)

2 Six-footer in Moldovan trip (3) 3 Post also including north country’s bulk (8)

4 Novelist for environment in speech (6)

5 Behind Republican listener (4) 6 Frisky ponies on time showing intelligence (9)

7 Focus attention on removing first lock (5)

11 Paris cool about attraction of Athens (9)

13 TASS long spreading Gorbachev initiative (8)

16 In two minds over a party storm (7)

17 Shifty copper caught up in nasty hole (6)

18 Army father quietly read novel (5)

20 Time taken in warm weather to bowl over (4)

23 Hidden by tutu, monstrous belly (3) COFFEE TIME

ACROSS 1 Bewitch (5)

4 Clothing item (7)

8 Camp convenience (7)

9 Easily sufficient (5)

10 Freshwater fish (8)

12 Business leader (4)

14 Short assignment (6)

15 Flexible (6)

18 Water conduit (4)

19 French male title (8)

21 Dutch earthenware (5)

22 Balkan nation (7) 24 Soul (7)

25 Musical speed (5) DOWN 1 Scented toilet water (7)

2 Social insect (3)

3 Region excluding islands (8) 4 ”Brighton Rock” author (6)

5 Bring up (4)

6 Spying (9)

7 Plait or braid (5)

11 Parthenon locale (9)

13 USSR’s openness (8)

16 Destructive wind (7)

17 Disreputable (6)

18 Chaplain (5)

20 Daze or shock (4)

23 Corporation (3)