TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Prize ribbon with flower

pattern at the centre (7) 5 Laid down the law in Peru

ledger (5)

8 Serious hole in ground (5) 9 Got idea for distributing

annual (7)

10 Pity a car was removed, it

was greed (8)

11 Eager for knowledge about

Orient (4)

13 Lives rough by river with

precious metal (6)

15 Right man so wrong for

hostage payment (6) 18 Swallow part of bottle (4) 19 Emaciated Stella moves

round locker endlessly (8) 22 Palest success in the west

(7)

23 Wash club with helium (5) 24 Drink for majestic return (5) 25 Decide to crack the clue

again? (7)

DOWN

1 Considers scholar, finally,

with unusual grades (7) 2 Mischievous child has most

of seafood (5)

3 Large ditches disrupt N

Chester (8)

4 Fraction of altitude, start to

finish (6) 5 Anglers use these as

perches (4) 6 Correspondence from

landlords? (7)

7 Sketch back of kitchen

that’s closed (5)

12 Earl obeys without unknown quantity from some listeners (3,5)

14 Without being idle, don’t

start (7)

16 From an island being kind of

cross (7)

17 One sliding on ice is fish,

right? (6)

18 Post lately discovered by

the Spanish (5)

20 Entire drink left beyond

article (5)

21 Bring up at the back (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Prize ribbon (7) 5 Controlled (5) 8 Burial place (5) 9 Garden annual (7) 10 Greed for gain (8) 11 Acute (4) 13 Precious metal (6) 15 Hostage money (6) 18 Audacity (4) 19 Bony (8)

22 Most bleached (7) 23 Cleanse (5) 24 German beer (5) 25 Determination (7)

DOWN

1 Best wishes (7) 2 Rogue (5)

3 Deep ditches (8) 4 Half of a quarter (6) 5 Angler’s poles (4) 6 Alphabet characters (7) 7 (Had) sketched (5) 12 Body parts to pierce (3,5) 14 Deficient (7)

16 From Valletta (7)

17 Ice dancer (6)

18 Staircase post (5) 20 Absolute (5)

21 At the back (4)