TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Make flow purely by strength (10) 8 Another topic about the eye (5) 9 Lab lent out for a game (7) 10 Rather hot flan coming out (3,4) 11 Sharpen your opener, darling (5) 12 Amazed by odd aunts round about the east (9) 15 Peruvian beast turns a shopping area over (5) 17 Wavy lines in note made to stretch (7) 19 Folding Latvian capital in order to get one (7) 20 Cut up manuscript for tests (5)

21 Fair still had end altered (4-6)

DOWN

2 Group of eight, and the rest turned up in the Old Testament (5) 3 Fondness won’t begin to show delight (7) 4 Pick holes in and wickedly dun fit halfwit (4,5,4) 5 Door fastener found in stall at Chepstow (5) 6 Longed for end of day, having worked for pay (7) 7 At start of campaign, put down soil (4) 8 Duck in park finally makes another animal sound (4) 12 A sin involving a right for deadly sin (7) 13 Underground cell, none dug out (7) 14 Disorder in army canteen (4) 15 Closed circuit, game over (4) 16 Saying American lawyer is in time (5) 18 Picture stupid game I began (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Forcibly (10) 8 Of the eye (5) 9 Ladies’ team game (7) 10 I should say! (3,4) 11 Bees’ product (5) 12 Amazed (9) 15 Peruvian beast (5) 17 Made to stretch (7) 19 Japanese art of paperfolding (7) 20 Important tests (5) 21 Fair (4-6)

DOWN

2 Group of eight (5) 3 Delight (7) 4 Pick holes in (4,5,4) 5 Door fastener (5) 6 Longed for (7) 7 Potter’s material (4) 8 Noise of a pig (4) 12 Extreme greed (7) 13 Underground cell (7) 14 Army canteen (4) 15 Wind in a circle (4) 16 Saying (5) 18 Picture (5)

1 Assured; 8 Echelon; 9 Initial; 10 Surge; 11 Athletics; 14 Hidden; 15 Dimes; 16 Airmen; 20 Ceasefire; 23 Cacti; 24 Serpent; 25 On stage; 26 Adeptly. 1 Animal; 2 Slight; 3 Rhine; 4 Delhi; 5 Chassis; 6 Flared; 7 Unseen (scene); 12 Twine; 13 Chess; 15 Decimal; 16 Anchor(e); 17 Recess; 18 Digest (jest); 19 Gentry; 21 At sea; 22 Eerie.