TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Gravitas only, times have

changed (9) 6 Sank your teeth into small

portion (3) 8 Tea for fool up in the

morning (5) 9 Exchange ten euro along

the way (2,5) 10 Silly trout! I, a learner, need

teaching! (8) 11 Prisoner’s room to exchange for money, we hear (4) 13 Fuss about daughter, much

loved (6) 14 Thanks given by poet for

this garment (6) 17 Strikes successful

songs (4) 19 Red steak minced, marked

with thin lines (8) 22 Batter some of castle’s

mound (7) 23 Cold, girl in form (5) 24 Adjust television (3) 25 Could be nasty, Bond

awaiting action (2,5-2)

DOWN

1 Northern extraneous jazz

singing is inadequate (5) 2 Small country hotel’s

turning circle (7) 3 Little notes containing unpleasant ire bring thoughts of the past (8) 4 Up in space, circulate part of the frozen polar region (3,3) 5 Tale that’s spun by the

textile worker (4) 6 Tuber cooked for beast (5) 7 Bert possibly went in front and increased threefold (7) 12 Can live off a Spanish

city (8) 13 Sticks the notices round

this place (7) 15 Ungraceful bird heard,

needing room (7) 16 In Budapest a Tuscan has

social standing (6) 18 Employee with time to entice (5) 20 Messy study is not

clean (5) 21 Pudding is a gooseberry, to

some extent (4)