TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Breeze to subside during

parachute landings (7) 8 Pasta right for a fiddle,

unfinished (7)

9 Distress or utter agony (7) 10 He’s getting up part of the

stairs (5)

11 Put ethane compound to

raise your stake (2,3,4) 14 Hope to see a steeple (6) 15 Deny root’s been dug

over (5)

16 Type of train from Leeds

I vandalised (6) 20 Mollusc displaying a

temper in divinity (9) 23 Blood vessel discovered in

Australia or Tasmania (5) 24 Some err badly and feel

contrition for it (7) 25 Mammal chained to

rock (7)

26 Inept at treating sick

person (7)

DOWN

1 Partially smart, fully sly (6) 2 I tarry after ordering

scarce object (6)

3 Wake up right by the

river (5)

4 Clean pair, born to be

raised (5) 5 High spot for first lady and

others (7)

6 A bison runs to small

tree (6)

7 Forcibly enter seaside

construction by church (6) 12 A turbulent lake for Cub

pack leader (5)

13 First to tell relative of

mocking remark (5) 15 Considers sending

message of goodwill (7) 16 One who distributes packs

by hand? (6)

17 They are endlessly, awfully

coarse (6)

18 Scattered spears, slightly

out of place (6) 19 Commercial rated

appalling, five claimed (6) 21 Fight is rubbish (5) 22 Watch back, seeing area of

responsibility (5)