TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 Striking and taking into
custody (9)
6 Main chair, backless (3) 8 Subject featured in
Canaletto picture (5) 9 Recipe to prepare rum
loaf (7)
10 Holy visitors slip up,
forbidding entry? (8) 11 Nothing turned up in
offshore zone (4) 13 Musical-sounding
country (6)
14 Spirit, tradename
unknown (6) 17 See a change for leisure (4) 19 Did a nose disorder result
from these? (8) 22 Venomous creature shown
without tail on sign (7) 23 Model tights – but not
these! (5)
24 Row when Norse god is
beheaded (3)
25 Trait of German writer,
potential miser (9) DOWN 1 Bill and sheep cause
trouble (3,2) 2 About to beat with
disgust (7) 3 Competition resulting in
job losses? (4,4) 4 Notoriety results if many
are upset (6)
5 Source of disease during
hunger march (4)
6 Cause disruption with
impudence (5)
7 Basic thing in any physical
structure (7)
12 Vicious person holds trap
for dark-haired girl (8) 13 We hear visitor made an
estimate (7)
15 Robinia cultivated for
African city (7)
16 In the lead jointly be in
contact (6)
18 Now so terribly faint (5) 20 Second side creating
vapour (5)
21 Charts turned up showing
tinned meat (4) COFFEE TIME ACROSS 1 Taking into custody (9) 6 Large body of salt
water (3)
8 Subject (5)
9 Set of chemical
symbols (7)
10 Religious travellers (8) 11 Nothing (4)
13 Athens’s country (6) 14 French spirit (6)
17 Make less severe (4) 19 Glandular nasal tissue (8) 22 Eighth sign of the
zodiac (7)
23 Things over there (5) 24 Row (3)
25 Habitual gesture (9) DOWN 1 Cause trouble (3,2) 2 Disgust (7) 3 Sports-day event (4,4) 4 Notoriety (6)
5 Source of disease (4) 6 Food dressing (5) 7 Physique (7) 12 Dark-hairedwoman (8) 13 Made an estimate (7) 15 Kenya’s capital city (7) 16 Be next to (6)
18 Faint (5)
20 Vapour (5)
21 Junk electronic mail (4)
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
Across: 1 Crash course; 9 Ups; 10 Epicentre; 11 Sergeant; 12 Talc; 14 Ration; 16 Pickle; 18 Imps; 19 Crusades; 22 Nicaragua; 23 Roe (Row); 24 Slipped disc.
Down: 2 Riser; 3 Skeleton; 4 Client; 5 Used; 6 Setback; 7 Subservient; 8 Teacher’s pet; 13 First aid; 15 Topical; 17 Prague; 20 Darts; 21 Prop.