Business Day

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Stupid Rover, dunce, in

disguise (10)

8 Helping hand for member

having finished (3-2) 9 Peep back to emotional

display – disgusting (7) 10 Free ale, shun rum! (7) 11 Following last of mergers,

we will shortly expand (5) 12 Sweet stuff cures a nag,

incredibly (4,5)

15 Army subdivisio­n ’ s bad

time to retreat (5) 17 Enliven a Northern Island

friend (7) 19 Skill in golf, for placing (7) 20 Right sort of

circumfere­nce (5)

21 Make a request to hold a

tear, so it seems (10)

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2 Boy from Elgin (5) 3 Describe former

flatland (7)

4 Wardrobe item hotel

changes, moving right (7,6) 5 Saves damaged urns (5) 6 Ungulate's right audible

expression of dismay (3,4) 7 Late getting out for a

duck (4)

8 Thug should be left out (4) 12 Terrible actor, one approachin­g a European country (7)

13 Making an entrance with portion of mango in ginger (5,2)

14 Samuel initially with the other Old Testament character (4)

15 Time to copy record (4) 16 Proper person’s first to

dress fussily (5)

18 Girl seen in Capri

lately (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Acting secretly (10) 8 Assistance getting over a

wall? (3-2)

9 Coarse (7)

10 Free from a restraint (7) 11 Bulge (5)

12 Sweetener from the

tropics (4,5)

15 Band (5)

17 Breathe life into (7)

19 ___ green, small golf

course (7) 20 Circumfere­nce (5)

21 By all accounts (10)

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2 Name of actors Havers,

Hawthorne and Planer (5) 3 Account for (7)

4 Item on which a garment

is suspended (7,6) 5 Containers for displaying

cut flowers (5)

6 Small antlered animal (3,4) 7 Freshwater duck (4)

8 Boor (4) 12 Balkan EU country (7) 13 Crossing the threshold

(5,2)

14 ___ Rogen, Canadian

comedy actor (4) 15 Adhesive strip (4) 16 Dress fussily (5) 18 30-day month (5)

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