TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Sparkling intelligence? (10) 8 Number like it! (5) 9 Rip around top of golf peg

by plant (3,4) 10 Sat upon a long step (7) 11 Being short and thickset,

crouch (5) 12 Moving epic restricted by

cost – it’s steep (9) 15 Find depth of fruit, we hear

(5) 17 Mere lad fashioned jewel

(7) 19 Warrior returning from Bali,

a rum ascent (7) 20 Regularly appearing on

tendril, fly will enlighten (5) 21 Keening about previous

brown locomotive (4,6)

DOWN

2 Correct side? (5) 3 Cattle I abandoned at the

open framework (7) 4 Like an oil supply being

prepared? (2,3,8) 5 Comes closer to name

those listening (5) 6 Exchange ten euro along

the way (2,5) 7 Handled soft material (4) 8 Give players a hand! (4) 12 Professor experienced

fall (7) 13 Cold place – I see bird

rising below (7) 14 Sounds like boy in a swirl

(4) 15 Upper-class pound shop

(4) 16 Nobleman in pub, working

(5) 18 Article about rest being

foreign (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Exceptional talent (10) 8 Arithmetic figure (5) 9 Antibacterial essential oil

(3,4) 10 Either side of (7) 11 Occupy illegally (5) 12 Cliff (9) 15 Absolutely vertical (5) 17 Brilliant green (7) 19 Japanese warrior (7) 20 Enlighten (5) 21 Steam locomotive (4,6)

DOWN

2 Appropriate (5) 3 Criss-cross pattern (7) 4 Being developed (2,3,8) 5 Approaches (5) 6 Along the way (2,5) 7 Beret fabric (4) 8 Bargain (4) 12 Drop like a stone (7) 13 Crisp lettuce (7) 14 Backward current (4) 15 Exclusive, upmarket (4) 16 Aristocratic title (5) 18 Unfamiliar (5)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Decease; 8 Thinner; 9 Shiatsu; 10 Knows (Nose); 11 Ownerless; 14 To date; 15 Strop; 16 Band(Banned)it; 20 Torpedoed; 23 Rivet; 24 Origami; 25 Endures; 26 Testate.

Down: 1 Despot; 2 Client; 3 (F)aster; 4 Etude; 5 Milksop; 6 Angora; 7 Frisee; 12 Lotto; 13 Stoop; 15 Sitters; 16 Borneo; 17 Nevada; 18 Sonata; 19 Advice; 21 Roost; 22 Emits.