TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 North African soldier has to leave renegade (6,3) 6 A quiet wood (3) 8 Chap, one with a fixation (5)

9 Girl in a state (7) 10 Renowned tipster to begin (5,3) 11 Test out printer’s instruction (4) 13 Points out engine part (6) 14 To hurt donkey’s tail is mean (6) 17 Part of the ear left with award (4) 19 Court novice is resting in warm clothes (8) 22 Sound closing the top of a room (7) 23 Time to wind up the monster (5) 24 Part of a stone weight (3) 25 Strange vision seen in regularly spooky plant (6,3)

DOWN

1 Coins turned up half old penny (5) 2 Dan uses nuts in desserts (7) 3 Response concerning military procedure (8) 4 Stew when scrap of cloth is extinguished (6) 5 In ancient royal city (4) 6 Mustang’s tail covering worry (5) 7 Lay the rocks next to hospital well (7) 12 TS Eliot novel contained end of blunt dagger (8) 13 Resort to place for weasel

like creature (7) 15 Robinia cultivated for African city (7) 16 Cut down by almost plausible jungle boy (6) 18 Wee child I found in farm building (5) 20 Singular friend, a girl (5) 21 Impudent talk about male lacking vitality (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 World War II North Africa veteran (6,3) 6 White wood (3) 8 Frenzy (5) 9 Atlanta’s state (7) 10 Begin (5,3) 11 Printing recorrection (4) 13 Engine component (6) 14 Mean (6) 17 Part of the ear (4) 19 Knitted garments (8) 22 Room’s inner roof (7) 23 Cave elf (5) 24 Great weight (3) 25 Irritant plant (6,3)

DOWN

1 Ten-cent coins (5) 2 Ice-cream dishes (7) 3 Response (8) 4 Highly seasoned stew (6) 5 City of the wooden horse (4) 6 Feeling of dread (5) 7 Well (7) 12 Short dagger (8) 13 Wild ferret (7) 15 Kenya’s capital city (7) 16 Boy from The Jungle Book (6) 18 Scottish child (5) 20 Go forth (5) 21 Hobble (4)