TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Mobile unit’s carol is

beyond our hearing (10) 8 Harmonised and in good

shape (5) 9 Free fermented lager – ta!

(2,5) 10 Tell of French and Scottish

island rising (7) 11 Unacceptable idea I

rejected (3,2) 12 Remand lad, unusually, in

ideal world (9) 15 Dance arrangement from

Tonga (5) 17 Jotter taped on, badly (7) 19 Around swirling fog, there’s

meal for shark (7) 20 Parts of speech on sun

garbled (5) 21 Old record broken by Polly

Regan (4-6)

DOWN

2 Recluse in Toulon, erudite

(5) 3 Communist record,

bureaucracy (3,4) 4 National diplomacy, in the

past, mass production (13) 5 Thread taken in by many

Londoners (5) 6 Artery is a nonsense

among detectives (7) 7 Put article in study for

college officer (4) 8 Flavour taken away now

guzzling starts (4) 12 Finished with girl in Irish

county (7) 13 Social worker and girl put

up aerial (7) 14 Ominous time where

teams losing leader (4) 15 Quite large and neat (4) 16 Hunter of the stars? (5) 18 Secretary to apply for

break (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 On a frequency humans

cannot hear (10) 8 Shaded (5) 9 On the run (2,5) 10 Chronicle (7) 11 Impractical (3,2) 12 Utopia (9) 15 Ballroom dance (5) 17 Jotter (7) 19 Small shark (7) 20 Naming words (5) 21 Old name for an album

disc (4-6)

DOWN

2 Hermit (5) 3 Bureaucracy (3,4) 4 Diplomacy, judiciousness

(13) 5 Synthetic fibre (5) 6 Neck artery (7) 7 Faculty head (4) 8 Distinctive flavour (4) 12 County of NW Ireland (7) 13 Aerial (7) 14 Fateful March date (4) 15 Orderly (4) 16 “Hunter” constellation (5) 18 Brief stop (5)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Basmati; 8 Cordoba; 9 Prattle; 10 Turin; 11 Spindrift; 14 Repels; 15 Tiler; 16 Defeat; 20 Bachelors; 23 Creel; 24 Norwich; 25 Cutting; 26 Airflow.

Down: 1 Bypass; 2 Static; 3 Acted; 4 Iceni; 5 Trotter; 6 Coerce; 7 Faints; 12 Raita; 13 Fresh; 15 Tabloid; 16 Decoct; 17 (S)Fiesta; 18 Social; 19 Eschew; 21 Conga; 22 Error.