TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Dad and I entering park abroad for a red pepper (7) 8 Film advert for caravan (7) 9 Eastern eccentric appears

sincere (7) 10 Page from predictable

epic (5) 11 Accepts, stupidly, the French will produce a show (9) 14 Capital city in Asia, then

Singapore (6) 15 Known facts of the first

Bible book (5) 16 Grubs found by a redhead

in cooked veal (6) 20 Friar briefly breaks chain left of the air passages (9) 23 Son to catch mollusc (5) 24 Transmission of clothes

container (7) 25 Very big time, well-heeled

bird (7) 26 Within that context,

neither is wrong (7)

DOWN

1 Entreaties, up to a point,

will give satisfaction (6) 2 Accountant on board has a

wallet, right? (6) 3 Nitre treated, though

inactive (5) 4 Some latticework in the

room (5) 5 Play the king? (7) 6 Assert that a shelf is

sound (6) 7 Padre’s new curtains (6) 12 Clothes-horse from

Ireland, say (5) 13 Partly translating

language (5) 15 Newspaper obit lad

messed up (7) 16 Lecture, given more

scantily dressed? (6) 17 Tailor-made bridge (6) 18 Little Violet having

talent? Feasible! (6) 19 King easy-going when

playing horn (6) 21 Should get tough when

beaten (5) 22 One lifts a bird (5)

ACROSS

1 Red spicy

seasoning (7) 8 Caravan (7) 9 Determined (7) 10 Electronic sound (5) 11 Entertaining sight (9) 14 Capital of Greece (6) 15 Actuality (5) 16 Caterpillars etc (6) 20 Relating to part of the

lungs (9) 23 Garden pest (5) 24 Part of a car engine (7) 25 Large flightless bird (7) 26 Into that (7)

DOWN

1 Delight (6) 2 Chief steward (6) 3 Chemically inactive (5) 4 Garret (5) 5 Shakespeare’s “Scottish play” (7) 6 Accuse without

proof (6) 7 Curtains (6) 12 Clothes-drying

machine (5) 13 Ancient language (5) 15 Small-format

newspaper (7) 16 Instruction period (6) 17 Bridge in Venice (6) 18 Feasible (6) 19 Electric horn (6) 21 Should (5) 22 Building-site hoist (5)