TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Pair’s prime new potato (5,5) 8 Formal talks cover Mediterranean island (5) 9 Former performer is one who makes excessive demands (7) 10 Send imp round hills (7) 11 Put on clothes where you live without promotion (5) 12 Planned to be artificial (9) 15 Social class starts to collaborate and sees the effect (5) 17 Head of government authorises place of execution (7) 19 Replace bottle containing dummy drug (7) 20 Rage from warden who’s lost his head (5) 21 Upset pad is ransacked with a purpose (10)

DOWN

2 Exhausted everyone at home (3-2) 3 Section of hospital I analysed is Roman, perhaps (7) 4 Push river team into lobby (8,5) 5 Page with positioned fabric (5) 6 Once more take steps to improve the tyre (7) 7 Tender return for love-god (4) 8 Office note is among some mixed up (4) 12 What cows chew without celebrity sauce (7) 13 Cool van travelling to hot mountain (7) 14 One who exploits an employer (4) 15 Imitate facsimile (4) 16 Inside, Steven Spielberg quits! (5) 18 Liver, perhaps, as musical instrument! (5)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS 1 Popular potato variety (5,5) 8 Country, capital Valletta (5) 9 Taskmaster (7) 10 Cheddar hills (7) 11 Apparel (5) 12 Arranged (9) 15 Hindu class level (5) 17 Gibbet (7) 19 Dummy pill (7) 20 Enrage (5) 21 Fail (10)

DOWN

2 Comprehensive (3-2) 3 From Turin or Milan (7) 4 Campaign force (8,5) 5 Checked pattern material (5) 6 Remoulded tyre (7) 7 Cupid (4) 8 Brief note (4) 12 Dessert topping (7) 13 Erupting mountain (7) 14 Consumer (4) 15 Duplicate (4) 16 Balances up (5) 18 Church instrument (5)