TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Token gates stop Pam

wandering (7,5)

9 Order military man to lose

nothing (7)

10 Chief measure (5)

11 Home tucked away in bone

store (4)

12 Plans some French

indicators (7)

15 Army canteen happy to

mishandle situation (4,2) 16 Double tea dance (3-3) 19 Sauce in boat, raised (7) 21 Rose made for love-god

(4) 24 Two boys of high birth (5) 25 Issue from sea cow, back

to front (7)

26 Brutal oaf, few tangle with

this animal (5,7)

DOWN

2 Diffusion of moss is

nothing to worry about (7) 3 What’s wrong? Melting

process (4)

4 Ingenious device, specially

tagged (6)

5 Unbending art overturned

in view (8)

6 Exhausted everyone at

home (3-2)

7 Leave car quietly on vessel

(4)

8 Financial state of firm involved in money problems (7)

13 Well-built slum a cur

destroyed (8)

14 Harassed, but had less

trouble (7)

17 Short drink, reportedly, cut

short (7)

18 Suitor outside old city

office (6)

20 Film discomfort in country

(5)

22 Gold reward attracted

internally (4)

23 One doubles it (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Item on a letter (7,5) 9 Authority (7)

10 Country’s leader (5)

11 Bird’s dwelling (4) 12 Blueprints (7)

15 Blunder (4,2)

16 Ballroom dance (3-3) 19 Red sauce (7) 21 Aphrodite’s son (4)

24 Of the monarchy (5) 25 Come (from) (7)

26 Black domesticated animal with heavy swept-back horns (5,7)

DOWN

2 Gradual process of assimilation or absorption (7)

3 Defrost (4)

4 Useful device (6)

5 Direct (8) 6 Comprehensive (3-2) 7 Municipal green area (4)

8 Money management (7) 13 Beefy? (8)

14 Annoyed persistently (7) 17 Abbreviate (7)

18 Agency (6) 20 Alexandria’s country (5) 22 ___ Barrymore, ET actress

(4)

23 Fifty per cent (4)