TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Funny people to fall for a

cartoon (5,5) 8 Type of light downpour (5) 9 Via mundane Monet

flower (7) 10 Exchange ten euro along

the way (2,5) 11 Give up the produce (5) 12 Craftsperson making a

terrific mess (9) 15 Builder finding mother and

child (5) 17 Fish for Henry I, however

(7) 19 Calcium found on unimportant

Med island (7) 20 Insert trendy ballad (5) 21 To yell “please turn over some weight” is a word puzzle (10)

DOWN

2 Smell coming from centre

of bog, grim (5) 3 Repositioning it bound to

be questionable (2,5) 4 Modern nation, father to

set up (5-2-3-3) 5 Some of the three

dynamos are shrill (5) 6 Be the first one to enter

the landing-stage (7) 7 Heavy metal chain for

Fido? (4) 8 Worry about part of a

guitar (4) 12 Poison turns up in vaccines,

randomly (7) 13 One’s job is visiting (7) 14 Remain, for example,

around end of fortnight (4) 15 Office note is among some

mixed up (4) 16 Geeky foreigner dying to

interrupt (5) 18 Return a chunk of wood (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Cartoon sequence (5,5) 8 Saturate (5) 9 Windflower (7) 10 Along the way (2,5) 11 Give up (5) 12 Skilled craftsperson (9) 15 Builder in stone (5) 17 Large elongated flatfish (7) 19 Balearic island (7) 20 Carved decoration (5) 21 Coded message (10)

DOWN

2 Stench (5) 3 Open to question (2,5) 4 Up-to-date (5-2-3-3) 5 Shrill, high-pitched (5) 6 Early settler (7) 7 Be in front (4) 8 Be anxious (4) 12 Metallic poison (7) 13 Naming (7) 14 Live, dwell (4) 15 Brief note (4) 16 Geeky (5) 18 Light modelling wood (5)