TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Carefully kept convinced

to step outside (9) 6 Lee almost gets raincoat

(3) 8 Witty remark to maxim (5) 9 Deny profit, for example

(7) 10 Caused to be coated with

plaster (8) 11 Architect having wings (4) 13 Hidden in a French situation, you say? (6) 14 Calm and unhurried high

teas involving editor (6) 17 Document heroic act (4) 19 Direction of the round

broadcast (3,5) 22 Python coiled around duck

in storm (7) 23 Suffer at home with mongrel (5) 24 It can be seen above

South Kentucky (3) 25 Extremely happy, having

been switched off? (9)

DOWN

1 More domesticated queen

put on Scottish hat (5) 2 Former partner cares and

stretches (7) 3 Demonstrated without hesitation, it rained for a while (8) 4 Feel sorry for heron by river (6) 5 Raised platform for endless flower (4) 6 Perhaps me, sir, and

Scrooge (5) 7 Longing amid punishment

for pepper (7) 12 Making a sham attack and

soundly passing out (8) 13 Modernises what is past

due for review (7) 15 Fruit with rotten pair on

bed (7) 16 It’s entertaining, sending

Len up chimney (6) 18 Containing nothing yet MP

is brought over (5) 20 Ran fast, difficult round

centre of arena (5) 21 Gangster requires American bonnet (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Cherished (9) 6 Raincoat (3) 8 Adage (5) 9 Contradict (7) 10 Coated with plaster (8) 11 Small songbird (4) 13 Concealed (6) 14 Calm (6) 17 Action (4) 19 Directly towards the Arctic

(3,5) 22 Cyclone (7) 23 Run up (debts) (5) 24 The heavens (3) 25 Ecstatic (9)

DOWN

1 Less wild (5) 2 Elongates (7) 3 Rained (8) 4 Feel sorrow (6) 5 Hall platform (4) 6 Mean person (5)

7 Red pepper (7) 12 Making a mock attack (8) 13 Modernises (7) 15 Fleshy fruit (7) 16 Guide through (6) 18 Vacant (5) 20 Ran fast (5) 21 Gangster (4)