TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Charts uprising for tinned

meat (4)

4 Stupid person needed to

check the oil? (8) 8 Doctor writes potions (6) 9 Nothing to recover by

mouth (6)

10 Emperor and son taken

aboard by sailor (4)

11 US state musical? (8) 13 Neither before nor after,

nevertheless (2,3,4,4) 16 Partisan reformed by

candidate (8)

19 Fine redhead with a

vegetable (4)

20 Cut down by almost

plausible jungle boy (6) 22 Threaten writer in

mid-novel (6) 23 Composing a piece about hospital while in pain (8)

24 Harvest rotten pear (4)

DOWN

2 A sea trip's arranged for

hangers-on (9)

3 King, perhaps, gets on

during parade (7) 4 Daughter is company in

the dance club (5) 5 Difficulty having left dress out during the afternoon (7)

6 Coach from Margate, a

charabanc (5) 7 Commanding officer left

the mountain pass (3) 12 Poorly made Roman

notes (9)

14 His one law about

Kenyan language (7) 15 Soldier sent back account

— nothing in it (7)

17 Bar smoking? Others get

round it (5)

18 Object to fine note (5) 21 Blade held by Marco, a

rower (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Canned meat product (4) 4 Car’s measuring rod (8) 8 Beverages (6)

9 By means of speech rather

than writing (6)

10 Old Russian emperor (4) 11 1955 Rodgers and

Hammerstein musical (8) 13 Nevertheless (2,3,4,4) 16 Ambitious (8) 19 Alternative name for

gumbo (4)

20 Boy from “The Jungle

Book” (6)

22 Hover, approach (6) 23 Contorting in agony (8) 24 Bring in (the harvest) (4)

DOWN

2 Bloodsuckers (9) 3 Sovereign head of

state (7)

4 Club for dancing (5) 5 Difficult matter (7) 6 Coach, instruct (5) 7 Mountain pass (3) 12 Brief notes (9) 14 African language (7) 15 Cavalryman (7)

17 Bar of bullion (5) 18 Entity (5)

21 Bladed pole for moving

through water (3)