TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 In case learner is

French (4)

4 Check red meat is cooked, including a hint of oregano (8)

8 Fuel droplet won't start

spreading (6)

9 Into socks, and also

footwear (6)

10 Dish out pork, we hear? (4) 11 In the morning they changed stone for precious stone (8)

13 This should have a good

effect – a flu jab, perhaps

(1,4,2,3,3)

16 Heavenly body affected

radio set (8)

19 Press for extra leaders? (4) 20 Ray includes right

chant (6)

22 Reg’s so upset by

monstrous woman (6) 23 Leak involving sort that’s

superficial (4-4)

24 Month taken with duck

sauce (4)

DOWN

2 Seven? Else different time

for such a break (9) 3 Roped to unreliable

missile (7) 4 Island whisky article (5) 5 Leave without seconds

and pudding (7)

6 Farm operated with

support of church (5)

7 Hot drink steaming, to

some extent (3)

12 Joking apart, your isles are

awful! (9)

14 One very tardy to get put

aside (7)

15 Witty remark about mare running round another animal (7)

17 Taken down for school

report? (5)

18 Wretched soldier

essentially raised flag (5) 21 Noah’s vessel discovered in

far Korea (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 ___ we forget, phrase associated with Remembrance Day (4) 4 Average (8)

8 Car fuel (6)

9 Light summer shoe (6) 10 ___ out, dispense (4) 11 Bluish-violet quartz (8) 13 Encouraging stimulus

(1,4,2,3,3)

16 Rocky celestial body (8) 19 Common metal (4) 20 Buddhist chant (6) 22 Female giant (6)

23 Not as important as it

seems (4-4)

24 County in the Irish

province of Connacht (4)

DOWN

2 Mid-morning break (9) 3 Aquatic missile (7) 4 Valletta’s island (5) 5 Final course (7) 6 American cattle farm (5) 7 Earl Grey, eg (3)

12 All joking apart (9) 14 Cause to be alone (7) 15 Short witty saying (7) 17 (Had) consumed (5) 18 Bend or hang downwards

through tiredness (5) 21 Noah’s boat (3)