TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Caring about desecration (11) 9 Young louse can retreat (3) 10 Chart easing of tension as girl returns (6,3) 11 Police documents managed to cut through blemishes (8) 12 Laze round middle of nothing (4) 14 Opened wide to reverse study method (6) 16 Get back in gear somehow (6) 18 Even kiss Mary? Goodness me! (1,3) 19 Crazy girl amok at mass (8) 22 Best aspect of a stylist? (9) 23 Brownish horse colour finished, we hear (3) 24 A tape nearly unravelling in the box (7,4)

DOWN

2 Mammal with an ‘igher temperature (5) 3 Ship carries the right pennant (8) 4 Enlarge deli at resort (6) 5 Grass animals turned over (4) 6 Fit of fury with a painting medium (7) 7 Vaguely recognise sow by turning into elevated rider (4,2,5) 8 Date pint pot name, cracked (11) 13 Make one melt with a drink (5,3) 15 Fiddle involving runs results in dispute (7) 17 Play about gifted eccentric (6) 20 Narrow hill in Cambridgeshire (5) 21 Desperate request from pale sort (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Caring (11) 9 Fool (3) 10 Contoured chart (6,3) 11 Authorisations (8) 12 Nothing (4) 14 Gaped (6) 16 Acquire anew (6) 18 Goodness me! (1,3) 19 Metric weight unit (8) 22 Best aspect (9) 23 Brownish horse colour (3) 24 Football field “box” (7,4)

DOWN

2 River mammal (5) 3 Banner headline (8) 4 Become bigger (pupils) (6) 5 Aquatic grass (4) 6 Egg-yolk painting medium (7) 7 Recognise vaguely (4,2,5) 8 Engagement (11) 13 Citrus-flavoured brew (5,3) 15 Argue (7) 17 Move restlessly (6) 20 Crest (5) 21 Begging request (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Crosswords; 8 Viola; 9 Nervous; 10 Scalpel; 11 Reply; 12 Bedspread; 15 Shred; 17 Cascade; 19 Intense; 20 Emote; 21 Abyssinian.

Down: 2 Rioja; 3 Stamped; 4 Winkle-pickers; 5 Rarer; 6 Swooped; 7 Espy; 8 Visa; 12 Biretta; 13 Eastern; 14 We(a)re; 15 Skip; 16 Ding(h)y; 18 Aroma.