TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Over-emotional actor,

dilemma possibly (12) 9 Type of jazz music coming

from southern annexe (5) 10 Eg frail, perhaps? (7) 11 Make a medical judgement, having agonised terribly (8) 12 Photographed pellets (4) 14 Fly set off and set off

again (6)

15 Crush, Highland tipple (6) 18 Party punch? (4) 20 Roman Catholic official's

vehicle Linda crashed (8) 23 Retention second to

anger (7)

24 Corn plant, one seen in

labyrinth (5)

25 Unofficial location at the

end of 45? (3,3,6)

DOWN

2 Muslim land with some

anthem I rated (7) 3 Living thing providing

minor gas explosion (8) 4 Say “no” to litter (6) 5 Signify money’s short (4) 6 Model with lofty part of

leg (5)

7 Fast mover, trickster it’s

said? (7) 8 You, me and editor are

exploited (4)

13 Of no practical

significance to a don (8) 14 Label as firm, pungent

sauce (7)

16 Tearing apart, more

spicy (7)

17 Rush madly to get an

occupation (6)

19 Eat quickly, and jeer (5) 21 Vegetable to lose water,

we hear (4)

22 Sprint to the line (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Histrionic (12)

9 Item of playground

equipment (5) 10 Breakable (7)

11 Deduce the nature of (an

illness) (8)

12 Fired a gun (4)

14 ___ fly, African insect (6) 15 Whisky (6)

18 Hit hard again and again (4) 20 High-ranking Roman

Catholic priest (8) 23 Space for keeping spare

things (7)

24 American corn (5) 25 Unofficial (statement)

(3,3,6)

DOWN

2 Arab leader’s domain (7) 3 Life form (8)

4 Garbage (6)

5 Nasty, spiteful (4)

6 Part of the leg (5) 7 African wildcat with a

speckled body (7) 8 Exploited (4)

13 Bookish (8)

14 Hot pepper sauce (7) 16 Moroccan port (7) 17 Course of a working life (6) 19 Deride (5)

21 Onion-like vegetable (4) 22 Long hyphen (4)