TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Show concern about

Liberal bore (7) 5 What the photographer needs to do is concentrate (5) 8 Confuse with funny walk

when wife’s gone (5) 9 One engaged to keep hold

of new money (7) 10 Agricultural worker – she gets PhD without hesitation (8) 11 Plaything? Do

fifty-fifty! (4) 13 Country providing rabies

treatment (6) 15 Block where I’m awfully

deep (6) 18 Roger endlessly troubled

so (4) 19 How bounders are caught

unawares (2,3,3) 22 Order a cooker, we

hear (7) 23 Lightly cooked toast left

out (5) 24 Messy study is not

clean (5) 25 Incomplete job, less com

plicated with tufts (7)

DOWN

1 Branch assistant hides

part of car (7) 2 Boy gets the French

spoon (5) 3 Be in helm around

palace (8) 4 Attempt to get some beef

for tea (6) 5 Tooth admirer by

Gateshead (4) 6 Overlook study that has

been completed (7) 7 Bombard mollusc’s

casing (5) 12 Stress same ship

capsized (8) 14 Considers scholar, finally, with unusual grades (7) 16 Female ruler turning me over to the newspapers (7) 17 Put money into fashion

able underwear (6) 18 Large antelope from

eastern country (5) 20 Building hospital in

front of river (5) 21 Resentment seen in diplomat dropping round (4)

ACROSS

1 Degree of

excellence (7) 5 Central point (5) 8 Go rotten (5) 9 Back with funds (7) 10 Tender of flocks (8) 11 Child’s toy (4) 13 Belgrade’s country (6) 15 Block (6) 18 Consequently (4) 19 Unprepared (2,3,3) 22 Adjust (7) 23 Fried (5) 24 Needing a polish (5) 25 Ornamental

threads (7)

DOWN

1 Frame of a car (7) 2 Catering spoon (5) 3 Grand palace in

Oxfordshire (8) 4 Achievement (6) 5 Snake tooth (4) 6 Excuse, forgive (7) 7 Outside of an egg (5) 12 Accent (8) 14 Best wishes (7) 16 Female ruler (7) 17 Put money (in) (6) 18 African antelope (5) 20 Bingo winner’s cry (5) 21 Be jealous of (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Oestrogen 6 Lea(p) 8 Icing 9 Adamant 10 Employer 11 Thus 13 Betray 14 Smudge 17 A-bet 19 Damasc (Damask)US 22 Auction 23 Irate 24 Owl 25 Lime green

Down: 1 Opine 2 Snippet 3 Regional 4 Grater (Greater) 5 Near 6 Leach 7 Artiste 12 Impaling 13 Bravado 15 Dictate 16 Magnum 18 Excel(cell) 20 Stern 21 Dill