Business Day

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

- DOWN

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Created gin cocktail at a

scale of temperatur­e (10)

8 Strike small, small creature

(5) 9 The height of building

poor, oft shabby (7)

10 State in the manner of two different degree holders (7)

11 African port I get in casks

(5)

12 Disease developing in one

puma (9)

15 Connects with the golf

course (5) 17 Loner cites trouble during account (7)

19 Out of the ordinary police officer (7)

20 Chosen few from the panel I teach (5)

21 Priestess bothered taking time inside with relative (10)

DOWN

2 Heather or another girl (5)

3 Adolescent golf supporter

on horse last in race (7)

4 Bug, a nameless sort of

disease (6,7)

5 Commercial to choose to take on (5) 6 Land, not sea I suspect (7)

7 Pass-out for health resorts

(4)

8 Persian ruler gives two

exclamatio­ns (4)

12 Tool for making projection­s

around North Carolina (7)

13 The heart of the matter (7)

14 Each different pain (4)

15 Incline to catalogue (4)

16 Cooked pies containing cold cinnamon, say (5)

18 After a short time the ceremony becomes banal (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Celsius temperatur­e scale (10)

8 Strike with a heavy blow (5)

9 Apex of a building (7)

10 Southern US state (7)

11 North African port (5)

12 Lung complaint (9)

15 Coastal golf course (5)

17 Abstainer (7)

19 Distinctiv­e (7)

20 Best of the bunch (5)

21 Female relative by

marriage (10)

2 Heather genus (5)

3 Adolescent (7)

4 Rubella (6,7)

5 Choose, settle on (5)

6 Tallinn’s country (7)

7 Health resorts (4)

8 Former ruler of Iran (4)

12 Crab’s claws (7)

13 Central part (7)

14 Be painful (4) 15 Catalogue (4)

16 Nutmeg or cinnamon,

eg (5)

18 Banal (5)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Rum baba; 8 Brioch(r)e; 9 Bologna; 10 Amend; 11 Sightseer; 14 Ardent; 15 Adage; 16 Sonata; 20 Introvert; 23 Fates; 24 Ran amok; 25 Torture; 26 Sleeper.

Down: 1 Robust; 2 Malign; 3 Angst; 4 Abase; 5 Bizarre; 6 Accede; 7 Reedit; 12 Sudan; 13 Eager; 15 At issue; 16 Safety; 17 Notary; 18 Team up; 19 Stoker; 21 Tyres; 22 Ounce.

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