TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Prima donna’s song girl

won’t start (4)

4 Cleaner comes round with

first woman for novelist (8) 8 I get so upset at selfish

person (6)

9 Military display rubbish as

well (6)

10 Muse about Australian

runners (4)

11 Those neither on one side nor the other crashing Renaults (8)

13 Lack of response to ninety

visits I make (13) 16 I am going into property

evaluation (8)

19 Old cloth on table finally

brings anger (4)

20 State there's fruit on the

A2 (6)

22 Blacks out in fast

movement (6)

23 Write a label on a military

building (8)

24 Retreat provides cover for

animal (4) DOWN 2 Minster, eg, rebuilt for

army units (9)

3 A paper under discussion

(2,5) 4 Reveal memo left lying

around (3,2)

5 You and I start to trade diamonds, perhaps, for diver’s outfit (7)

6 Go in to make a record (5) 7 Surprised expression from

business circle (3)

12 Set alight gate I'd gone round, and took legal action (9)

14 Rationing, where shilling

going fast (7)

15 Lacquer to disappear

around river (7)

17 Not appropriate to sleep in

it (5)

18 Mischievous life, silly

heading north (5) 21 Article you and I dread (3)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS 1 Accompanied vocal solo

(4)

4 ‘___ of Arabia’, David Lean

film (8)

8 Big-head (6)

9 Military display (6) 10 Aussie birds (4)

11 Colours such as beige (8) 13 Callousness (13) 16 Approximate judgement of

number (8)

19 Fit of temper (4) 20 America’s 50th state (6) 22 Keels over, swoons (6) 23 Five-sided figure (8) 24 Animal pelt (4) DOWN 2 Army units (9)

3 In dispute (2,5)

4 Allow to be known (3,2) 5 Costume used in water

sports (7)

6 Come on stage (5) 7 Dove’s sound (3) 12 Sued (9)

14 Dividing up (7) 15 Embellish (the truth) (7) 17 Ill-suited (5)

18 Fairy-like (5) 21 Amazement (3)