TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Edit perhaps, so to punctuation marks (11) 9 American exits house and finds garden tool (3) 10 Ten boats I rearranged, being stubborn (9) 11 Little Miss accepts slip-ups (8) 12 Singer on short settee (4) 14 Observation pause holds one back (6) 16 Range of some text enterprising (6) 18 Sulk about poor poem (4) 19 In South America this constricts; Canada no different (8) 22 Bury, darling, to take in top end of Rochdale? Elucidate (9) 23 Remedy not right for Rod (3) 24 From Amsterdam, go on to global fame (11)

DOWN

2 Strips off to rest upside down (5) 3 Non-fare paying passenger to remove vehicle after second (8) 4 Torn duster was impaired by neglect (6) 5 Bucket appears white, we hear (4) 6 Inspect damaged main feeding river (7) 7 Cleaner turns out to be rich madam (11) 8 Pale, neat Ray disturbed in goalkeeper’s zone (7,4) 13 Will supervisor become hangman? (8) 15 PM outside gym with European chemist’s tube (7) 17 Trapped by routine in a Turin settlement (2,1,3) 20 Spinach ordinarily covers Mexican snack (5) 21 Feature of opera for starters always really interesting, actually (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Punctuation marks (11) 9 Garden implement (3) 10 Headstrong (9) 11 Blunders (8) 12 Much-admired singer (4) 14 Brief sighting (6) 16 Amount (6) 18 Act dejectedly (4) 19 Large boa (8) 22 Decipher (9) 23 Actor’s hint (3) 24 International fame (11)

DOWN

2 Pares (5) 3 Hidden traveller (8) 4 Corroded (6) 5 Bucket (4) 6 Analyse (7) 7 Hotel cleaning lady (11) 8 Goalkeeper’s zone (7,4) 13 Will administrator (8) 15 Chemist’s tube (7) 17 Bored (2,1,3) 20 Mexican chip (5) 21 Long operatic solo (4)