TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Stirs up former views, we hear (7)
8 Speed zero in vehicle, essential oil needed (7)
9 Beat counter madly (7)
10 Deserves tangled snare (5)
11 Moving staircase damaged Clara’s toe (9)
14 Reaching water courses, driver swerves somewhat (6)
15 Type of examination on carbon’s colour (5)
16 Show disapproval twice for mistake (6)
20 Horse circling European writer got harder to mount (9)
23 Braid, note, must be placed in hole (5)
24 Characters on the slope? (7)
25 Earth-shattering noise – is microphone covered? (7)
26 I daren’t organise commercial swap (5,2)
DOWN
1 Eastern power source listened to with respect (6)
2 Bend right into sofa (6)
3 Put on alcove section with a key (5)
4 Reportedly dispatched the perfume (5)
5 Rascal returning former currencyis put at risk (7)
6 Run forward with fee (6)
7 One grows flowers (6)
12 Happening at the back without rings (5)
13 Speak with some tutor, a teacher (5)
15 Set of clothes’ price
beginning to upset me (7)
16 Avoid using free ticket? (6)
17 Cross as oil flows round plant (6)
18 Lure about ten with diamond (6)
19 Do dons work out chance of betting? (4-2)
21 Order in Chinese dictionaries (5)
22 Dad eats most of loaf in public square (5)
COFFEE TIME
ACROSS
1 Stimulates (7)
8 Aromatic laurel (7)
9 Beat easily (7)
10 Acquires by labour (5)
11 Moving staircase (9)
14 Large streams (6)
15 Atoll substance (5)
16 Silly mistake, blunder (6)
20 Inclined more (9)
23 Braid (5)
24 Sloping letters (7)
25 Of earthquakes (7)
26 Part-exchange (5,2)
DOWN
1 Admiration (6)
2 Bend low (6)
3 According to key (5)
4 Aroma, perfume (5)
5 Endanger (7)
6 Accuse formally (6)
7 Eye parts (6)
12 Astir (5)
13 Declaim (5)
15 Actor’s clothes (7)
16 Avoid (6)
17 Flowering plant with clover-like leaves (6)
18 Allure (6)
19 Betting term (4-2)
21 Decree, order (5)
22 Public square (5)
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
Across:
1 Quadruplet;
8 Cause;
9 Divulge;
10 Polymer;
11 Drift;
12 Cirrhosis;
15 Tutor;
17 Kremlin;
19 Termini;
20 Graft;
21 Respecting.
Down:
2 Usu(Y)al(e);
3 Dreamer;
4 Under the knife;
5 Lived;
6 Tallies;
7 Newt;
8 Copy;
12 Caterer;
13 Sleight;
14 Unit;
15 Tate;
16 Ruins;
18 Learn.