TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Colour swineherds’ tunics

initially! (7) 5 Part of a bicycle to sell

door-to-door, say (5) 8 Love to be a shade of

green (5) 9 Outing allowed for child of

three (7) 10 A mutual problem accepting new beginning when seasonal (8) 11 Wild animal makes for noisy

golf course (4) 13 A poet takes nothing on

the ship (6) 15 Promise Penny unfinished

record book (6) 18 A stake to help (4) 19 Tempting hospital department with cake topping (8) 22 Name’s first opening (7) 23 Tree with less on top,

polled (5) 24 Scandinavian

vegetable (5) 25 Go over again to demolish

terrace (7)

DOWN

1 Proportionally, or apart

somehow (3,4) 2 Shame covered in gold, we hear (5) 3 Increasingly, for

eternity (8) 4 It was repeatedly rejected

by an artist (6) 5 First practise leaping in effortless ballet movement (4) 6 Put off, though set in

action (7) 7 White fluid of former

times (5) 12 Petitioner ain’t calm,

anyway (8) 14 Former single? (3-4) 16 Fighting call when terribly angered (2,5) 17 Fisherman with bad leg

ran (6) 18 A jib raised has another

name (5) 20 Home help brought up to

the country (5) 21 Rent has gone up, we

hear (4) COFFEE TIME

ACROSS 1 Colouring matter (7) 5 Bicycle part (5) 8 Cocktail fruit (5) 9 Group of three notes (7) 10 Of the third season (8) 11 Wildcat (4) 13 Embarked (6) 15 Assurance, promise (6) 18 Aid (a criminal) (4) 19 Alluring (8) 22 First (7) 23 Birch-like tree (5) 24 Kind of turnip (5) 25 Go back over (7) DOWN 1 Corresponding (3,4) 2 Culpability (5) 3 Always (8) 4 Bright reddish-gold (6) 5 Ballet step (4) 6 Held up (7) 7 Sap of the rubber tree (5) 12 Applicant (8) 14 Erstwhile (3-4) 16 Fencer’s warning (2,5) 17 Fisherman (6) 18 Also called (5) 20 Mumbai’s country (5) 21 Charter (4)