TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Unconventional rabbi’s

names for infants (5,2,4) 9 I see — it sounds cold (3) 10 On October 31 some shall owe enjoyment to ghosts and witches! (9) 11 Cosy baby bird (8) 12 Remain in pigpen holding

animal ’ s head (4) 14 Changing planes in Italian

city (6)

16 Meaning I ’ m left at

sea (6)

18 Colour of soft fluid (4) 19 One handling stage

drama on hill (8) 22 Ordinary post from Milan, perhaps, during voyage (5,4)

23 King Bill going around the

bend (3)

24 Stuff for wrapping pet up

raises problem (6,5)

DOWN

2 Donkey comes round near

very deep hole (5)

3 Girl communist, a

monarch (8)

4 One left buried in beach grains where there’s coastline all around (6)

5 A number on

waterway (4)

6 Eminent conductor bent

Tom’s ear (7)

7 Two spinning off here, the

end of the race? (7,4) 8 Becoming shirty since being

helpless with laughter (2,9) 13 Likely to be held up in the

rain (8)

15 Indian joke – Punch has

one (7)

17 Put idea out, but not one to

modernise (6)

20 Time to relax, then

torment (5)

21 Jumble-sale

refreshments (4) COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Newborns (5,2,4) 9 Bitterly cold (3)

10 ‘Trick or treat’ night (9) 11 Baby bird (8)

12 Corset support (4)

14 City at the foot of Mount

Vesuvius (6)

16 Bring from abroad (6) 18 ___ Floyd, Another Brick in

the Wall band (4) 19 Machine worker (8) 22 Ordinary non-electronic

communication (5,4) 23 ___ de Triomphe, Paris

landmark (3)

24 Soft thin material for wrapping delicate items (6,5)

DOWN

2 Bottomless gulf (5) 3 English king known as

‘the Unready’ (8)

4 Treasure ___, RL Stevenson

novel (6)

5 River of Bristol and

Bath (4)

6 Eminent conductor (7) 7 End of a race (7,4) 8 Helpless with laughter

(2,9)

13 Portable rain canopy (8) 15 Indo-European language of

India and Pakistan (7) 17 Modernise (6)

20 Irritate playfully (5) 21 Beers (4)