TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Castle wrote about gents, perhaps (5,6) 9 Steal or put back book (3) 10 Butcher opens sausages with funny sound (9) 11 Scholarly pupil to knot tie with speed (8) 12 Ancient Peruvian in Amer--

ican state (4) 14 Show off foreign article in apartment (6) 16 Lift out Henry’s extremities – disgusting! (6) 18 Trio upset with civil disorder (4) 19 Applaud snare? Rubbish! (8) 22 Five o’clock fortune tellers? (3,6) 23 Not entirely excellent sticky stuff (3) 24 Traditional relish for animal right on a plate (11)

DOWN

2 Superior, British in flying boat (5) 3 Making certain nine rugs woven (8) 4 Talkative traveller’s first inside new yacht (6) 5 Gory sort of indulgence (4) 6 No longer active, former leader of cell got in touch (7) 7 Awful fear and peril to rapidly increase (11) 8 Spy orange so bad at cheap eatery (6,5) 13 Having a tendency to be got rid of (8) 15 A mostly outspoken party demands fruit (7) 17 Caught with jemmy, being gifted (6) 20 Is furious when egghead appears in old clothes (5) 21 God seen in elevated canal (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Lavatory (5,6) 9 Steal (3) 10 Bloodshed (9) 11 Scholarly (8) 12 Ancient Peruvian (4) 14 Show off (6) 16 Unclean (6) 18 Civil disorder (4) 19 Rubbish (8) 22 Dregs in the bottom of a cup (3,6) 23 Sticky stuff (3) 24 Sauce to eat with roast beef (11)

DOWN

2 Head monk (5) 3 Making certain (8) 4 Talkative (6) 5 Wild party (4) 6 No longer active (7) 7 Reproduce rapidly (11) 8 Cheap cafe (6,5) 13 Inclined (8) 15 Shade of green (7) 17 Gifted (6) 20 Fits of fury (5) 21 Greatest Greek god (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Dolcelatte 8 Alarm 9 Adeptly 10 Acetate 11 Train 12 Greatness 15 Binge 17 Tabasco 19 Abolish 20 Aisle 21 Antithesis Down: 2 Orate 3 Comrade 4 Leave it at that 5 Trent 6 Entraps 7 Cyan 8 Away 12 Gondola 13 Embrace 14 Cove 15 Boar 16 Exist 18 Sushi