TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 St Michael bewildered old
scientist (9)
6 All right to include a
tree (3)
8 Less important feature of
tourism in Orlando (5) 9 Drink more rum with allpowerful leader (7)
10 Try to catch gang leader amid massive yobbish behaviour (8)
11 Abet crooked foreign
character (4) 13 North-east journalists
required (6)
14 Girl admits upshot
universal (6)
17 Part of the big reward just
got bigger! (4)
19 Rodent assimilating raw
tater (5,3)
22 Start to recognise American and Welsh girl’s nationality (7)
23 Yours truly’s given time to
make picture (5)
24 Come to assistance of
some of the raiders (3) 25 A few sentences from
trooper with a diagram (9)
DOWN
1 Concede it after mad
outburst (5)
2 Eat the amount in the
cornet (7)
3 Tea, eagerly brewed, is
about right (4,4)
4 Ruins rebuilt with European
guarantee (6)
5 Knock English record (4) 6 Very fat bee so sickly (5) 7 Wise guy on walk corrected at top of lane (4-3)
12 Changing triangle,
changing (8)
13 I regain composure in the
country (7)
15 Woman – one behind
bars (7)
16 Hide worker for six
pence (6)
18 Relieved from some
disease, delighted (5) 20 Alien trapped by the mutant canines, for example (5)
21 School’s ultimate naughty
child, slack (4)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 Medieval searcher for
gold (9)
6 Acorn tree (3)
8 Less important (5) 9 Overall chief (7) 10 Yobbish behaviour (8) 11 Letter following alpha (4) 13 Required (6)
14 Universal (6)
17 Got bigger (4) 19 Semi-aquatic rodent (5,3) 22 Eastern Slavic language (7) 23 Likeness (5)
24 Assistance (3)
25 Section of writing (9)
DOWN
1 Acknowledge (5) 2 Eat (7)
3 Tea variety (4,4) 4 Guarantee (6) 5 Adhesive strip (4)
6 Very fat (5)
7 Wise guy (4-3) 12 Changing (8)
13 West African republic (7) 15 Ms Windsor, actress (7) 16 Old sixpence (6) 18 Relieved (5)
20 Molars (5)
21 Hobble along (4)