TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 He fills your pipe where

basic cotton fails (11) 9 Look at from either

direction (3)

10 Kill last of chuckles before

giggling (9)

11 Pass judgement on grammatical construction (8)

12 Story’s thread? (4) 14 Infant crab? (6)

16 Prison setting hair on

end? (4-2)

18 Soundly chain wild cat (4) 19 Mother more orderly seeing tiger perhaps (3-5) 22 Amid strain, pop off to get

late news item (4,5) 23 Escape with ladder (3) 24 Trivial printout man

processed (11) DOWN 2 Old cane breaking in the

Atlantic, perhaps (5) 3 Read news out having

given reply (8)

4 Likelihood part of church

unfinished (6)

5 Fast approaching hours of darkness, though not entirely (4)

6 Bit of trouble when behind at tennis? (7)

7 A son replies about having

to make to order (11) 8 Relative wants a thousand pounds for father, housing payment (11)

13 County, not all, rest

different (8)

15 Bridge, card game (7) 17 Stare with boy endlessly,

seeing summerhouse (6) 20 Italian city, one in spin (5) 21 Charts uprising for tinned

meat (4) COFFEE TIME ACROSS 1 Cigarette seller (11) 9 Centre of a storm (3) 10 Bloodbath (9)

11 Condemn (to a term of

imprisonment) (8) 12 Anecdote (4)

14 Child (6)

16 Confine (4,2)

18 Animal of the cat family (4) 19 1982 hit for Hall &

Oates (8)

22 Breaking news item (4,5) 23 Make a dash for it (3) 24 Hardly worth

mentioning (11) DOWN 2 Atlantic or Pacific, eg (5) 3 Gave a reply (8)

4 Fortune or opportunity (6) 5 Close at hand (4) 6 Disappointment (7)

7 Mark with your initials (11) 8 Father’s father (11) 13 County east of Devon (8) 15 Blackjack (7)

17 Garden summerhouse (6) 20 City of north-west

Italy (5)

21 Canned meat product (4)