TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Great Dane wrecked
open-air restaurant (3,6) 6 Exclude bank, shortly (3) 8 Tool for removing top of
book (5) 9 Greek character takes
cakes up to bed (7) 10 Psychically move if figurative term allowed to rise (8) 11 Lots go to the centre for
aquatic creature (4) 13 Is Shakespearean king
turning from country? (6) 14 Writer Roald, one given a
flower (6) 17 Some are most irate to
wake from sleep (4) 19 Joined in but left some?
(4,4) 22 Cake politician found
inside salt container (7) 23 The man will have no word
of greeting (5) 24 Toper starts session on
Tuesday (3) 25 Game for five or ten, tug in
and out (5-2-2)
DOWN
1 River right inside camper’s
home (5) 2 Sharp-featured model
Laura, no good inside (7) 3 Plane’s pace creating despair around end of sortie (8) 4 Leave somewhere dry (6) 5 No marines achieving the
accepted standard (4) 6 Clubs in English city
making a collection (5) 7 Not entirely bad, I’m in a
strange country (7) 12 Lip in place again, over jaw
(8) 13 Bugs belonging to groups
(7) 15 Flyer left ale, surprisingly
(7) 16 Seconds regularly relent
(6) 18 One night in Paris with
Greenlander (5) 20 North ruined plant’s
protection (5) 21 Eminent guests back the
black marketeer (4)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 Outdoor cafeteria (3,6) 6 Embargo (3) 8 Trimming tool (5) 9 Layer, level (7) 10 Move by psychic power
(8) 11 Carp-like fish (4) 13 Haifa’s country (6) 14 Showy flower (6) 17 Agitate (4) 19 Competed (4,4) 22 Light toasted cake (7) 23 Greeting (5) 24 Heavy drinker (3) 25 Blackjack (5-2-2)
DOWN
1 East Midlands river (5) 2 Gaunt, lean (7) 3 Flight velocity (8) 4 Abandon (6) 5 Accepted standard (4) 6 Factory set (5) 7 Country west of Botswana
(7) 12 Cheekiness (8) 13 Creepy-crawlies (7) 15 Brochure (7) 16 Alleviate (6) 18 Natives of the Arctic (5) 20 Barb of a rose (5) 21 Black marketeer (4)