TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 One may be given in a church in a county town (7) 5 Brush, or brushwood? (5) 8 Audible magnitude of

sounds of relief (5) 9 Stopped work and went

to bed (7) 10 Profit from hobby (8) 11 Order youth leader to do

as he’s told (4) 13 Got to miss header, but

scored (6) 15 Gear a number put on

baby animal (6) 18 Sprint to the line (4) 19 Keep being quiet with

book (8) 22 Second-rate bat gets sup

port (7) 23 Poem Lily’d reproduced

(5) 24 Dean’s new chair (5) 25 Encourage leading boffin

(7)

DOWN

1 Priest off to the Orient for

a break (7) 2 Mustang’s tail covering

worry (5) 3 Awful resident entered

(8) 4 Turn up in a mackintosh, sir – a greatcoat is rather showy (6) 5 Upsetting contents of

burrow (4) 6 Welsh dish – unusual

piece (7) 7 Pal’s sprout to dry right

out (5) 12 Circle lies round inside

wine (8) 14 What cows chew with

out celebrity sauce (7) 16 Annoyed and wanted to

set about pupil (7) 17 Legal document gets

the man to squirm (6) 18 Little girl with backstreet money problems (5) 20 My! Her awful verse!

(5) 21 Similar to a monarch,

no good (4)

ACROSS

1 Perusing (7) 5 Brushwood (5) 8 Long deep breaths (5) 9 No longer working (7) 10 Saver’s premium (8) 11 Do as told (4) 13 Deeply marked (6) 15 Baby cat (6) 18 Hurry (4) 19 Pickle (8) 22 Shelf support (7) 23 Country paradise (5) 24 Carried chair (5) 25 Intellectual (7)

DOWN

1 Breathing space (7) 2 Pent-up worry (5) 3 Embedded (8) 4 Gaudy (6) 5 Badger’s home (4) 6 Welsh cheese dish (7) 7 Pal (5) 12 Dry German wine (8) 14 Sauce for puddings (7) 16 Annoyed (7) 17 Twist in pain (6) 18 Obligations (5) 20 Verse (5) 21 Of similar nature (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION Across:

1 Pestilence 8 Dover 9 Neptune 10 Guy rope 11 Leads 12 Suffocate 15 Stars 17 Pigment 19 Harrier 20 Lying 21 Wet blanket Down: 2 Envoy 3 Turn off 4 Lance corporal 5 Nepal 6 Educate 7 Sees 8 Digs 12 Sparrow 13 Angolan 14 Stag 15 Soho 16 Skint 18 Elite