TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 One looking for

romance? (3,8) 8 Responsible for bad

service after a time (2,5) 9 He's getting up part of the

stairs (5)

11 Part of North Island

belongs to him (3)

12 Drive mad grandee

about (7)

13 Provide witticism after

end of tale (5)

14 Drunken sleuth has to

push roughly (6)

16 Secret place for an MP's

holiday (6)

19 Heather or another

girl (5)

21 Most of month taken to

bed fruit (7)

23 Escape with ladder (3) 24 Cut up manuscript for

tests (5)

25 Trimmer ship (7) 26 Anna's hinges broken,

causing mischief (11)

DOWN

2 Suggest spreading fire

round the North (5) 3 Face absorbing pot

daily (7)

4 Tie up to some gate, the

ram (6)

5 Swear there's nothing

missing from the circuit (5) 6 Old boy's solution is

unclear (7)

7 Stale Cheddar? Bad

luck! (4,6)

10 Commercial traveller's love story about one store (10)

15 Leaves chaps in

torment (7)

17 Longing not to start

making money (7) 18 Tintin's dance (6) 20 Crime committed by

beggars, once (5)

22 Fowl with a hat on (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Fib-spotting device (3,8) 8 Culpable (2,5)

9 Part of a stair (5) 11 Belonging to the man (3) 12 Cause insanity in (7) 13 Deck out (5)

14 Elbow, push roughly (6) 16 Adjournment (6) 19 Collective name for plants

of the heather family (5) 21 Fleshy fruit (7)

23 Move quickly (3) 24 Academic tests (5)

25 Old sailing ship (7) 26 Antics (11)

DOWN

2 Conclude (5)

3 Active during daylight

hours (7)

4 At the end of one's ___,

absolutely fed up (6) 5 Blaspheme (5) 6 Abstruse (7)

7 Bad luck! (4,6) 10 Arsenal (10)

15 Dark green succulent

plant (7)

17 Acquiring (7) 18 Famous French highkicking dance (6) 20 Causing fires

deliberately (5) 22 Cockerel bred for

eating (5)