TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Request for hard work (11) 9 Initially worms emerge

thoroughly moist (3) 10 Mother introduces one nobleman and Queen to postal shopping (4,5) 11 Speed up former exercises

before tide turns (8) 12 Check concerning

home (4) 14 Copyright infringement is

smutty after page one (6) 16 Scandal taken up in soap is

so good! (6) 18 Discussion forms part of

vital knowledge (4) 19 Fusspot putting label in

lake? On the contrary (8) 22 Tell raver about holidaymaker (9) 23 Tot reverses fastener (3) 24 As sincerely muddled,

inevitably (11)

DOWN

2 Either way, it’s

erected (3,2) 3 Useless thing preparing

meal with meat (4,4) 4 Chapter head with sound suggestions for the cloth (6) 5 Money back for hammer,

perhaps (4) 6 Not even the head displays a strange quality (7) 7 Top toast cooked around

little yam (5,6) 8 See-through patterns ran

randomly (11) 13 Wizard’s silly errors outside

church (8) 15 Let out, or let out

again? (7) 17 Engine stops running in

theatre seating area (6) 20 Wash against the Spanish

extended collar (5) 21 At this point in the

rehearsal (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Membership form (11) 9 Damp (3) 10 Postal shopping (4,5) 11 Accelerate (8) 12 Bridle strap (4) 14 Buccaneering (6) 16 Chit-chat (6) 18 Chat (4) 19 Fusspot (8) 22 Globetrotter (9) 23 Dowel (3) 24 Inevitably (11)

DOWN

2 Increase (prices) (3,2) 3 Feeble thing (4,4) 4 Floral cotton cloth (6) 5 DIY implement (4) 6 Eccentric behaviour (7) 7 Edible tropical tuber (5,6) 8 Clear (11) 13 Magician (8) 15 Deliverance (7) 17 Booths (6) 20 Collar extension (5) 21 At this place (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Brilliance; 8 Digit; 9 Tea tree; 10 Astride; 11 Squat; 12 Precipice; 15 Plumb (Plum); 17 Emerald; 19 Samurai; 20 Edify; 21 Tank engine.

Down: 2 Right; 3 Lattice; 4 In the pipeline; 5 Nears; 6 En route; 7 Felt; 8 Deal; 12 Plummet; 13 Iceberg; 14 Eddy; 15 Posh; 16 Baron; 18 Alien.