TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 To put off tenancy payments, it’s a discouragement (9) 6 Endlessly cut the cooker

fuel (3) 8 Man on board consumes

head of raw shellfish (5) 9 No brawl arranged for flyer

(4,3) 10 Tied up Edward around that

place (8) 11 Employed in house decora

tion (4) 13 Trap in a niche (6) 14 Solidly built merchandise

unknown (6) 17 Novel idea for an assistant

(4) 19 Complete, from beginning

to end, hiding nothing (8) 22 Townsman takes food up to

that woman (7) 23 Data entered turns up in

side tin, ruined (5) 24 Flatfish seen among

grayling (3) 25 Envoy in red assigned to

lesser work (9)

DOWN

1 Opted to change supply sta

tion (5) 2 Time right with thespian

seeking farm vehicle (7) 3 Caused to be coated with

plaster (8) 4 Tremble meekly concealing

a badge (6) 5 Go for spin (4) 6 Twelve dozen are coarse (5) 7 Remarkably disloyal article

dropped firmly (7) 12 Mixing the ingredients is

stimulating (8) 13 Cold meat set before the Queen, then scramble (7) 15 Cake politician found in

side salt container (7) 16 Some Bach, or a lied, is

sung (6) 18 American hat race (5) 20 Despised strange death

(5) 21 Authority imprisons

hammer owner (4)

ACROSS

1 Impediment (9) 6 Airy matter (3) 8 Shrimp-like creature (5) 9 Large-eyed nocturnal

bird (4,3) 10 Bound by rope (8) 11 Accustomed (4) 13 Angular recess (6) 14 Chunkily built (6) 17 Adviser (4) 19 All-inclusive (8) 22 Citizen of a town (7) 23 Data entry (5) 24 Line of light (3) 25 Banished (9)

DOWN

1 Storehouse (5) 2 Agricultural vehicle (7) 3 Coated with plaster (8) 4 Badge (6) 5 Change direction (4) 6 Vulgar (5) 7 Compactly (7) 12 Causing trouble (8) 13 Ascend awkwardly (7) 15 Toasted and buttered

cake (7) 16 Of group singing (6) 18 Classic Epsom race (5) 20 Abhorred (5) 21 Norse thunder god (4)