TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Spouse ’ s parent, almoner

with bananas (6-2-3) 9 Anger in the choir

eventually (3) 10 Cloistered veils cure

problem (9)

11 Children break my falls,

right! (5,3)

12 Heroic exploit, whichever

way you look at it (4) 14 Essence of article

reversed, terribly true (6) 16 Plot danger, perhaps (6) 18 Make elephants turn over

some veg (4) 19 Vessel five hundred mice infected with widespread illness (8)

22 Active by night, prisoner sent back to divert Capone (9)

23 So a king hid in this tree (3) 24 Alleged rent negotiated

with hard cash (5,6)

DOWN

2 Hope Ravel included this

work (5)

3 The study of putting one’s

arms in a coat (8)

4 Put down that CD! (6) 5 Name names about heads

of Oxford University (4) 6 Could be needs A1

flavouring (7)

7 I’m kissing fifty Northern characters to find my absent ancestor (7,4) 8 One gets cut up after the

match (7,4)

13 Old man in accident with

instrument (8)

15 Claret spilt on English syrup

(7)

17 Metal drawer (6) 20 Creature sounds like a cow

up to a point (5)

21 A fanatic turned up to see

fish (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Husband’s mum (6-2-3) 9 Anger (3)

10 Antisocial (9)

11 Anything inconsequential

(5,3)

12 Housing document (4) 14 Animal and plant life, eg (6) 16 Grounds of a house (6) 18 Emblem of Wales (4) 19 Global (disease) (8) 22 Active by night (9) 23 Acorn tree (3)

24 Coinage in current use

(5,6)

DOWN

2 La Traviata, eg (5)

3 Study of armorial insignia

(8)

4 Album (6)

5 Common or proper part of

speech (4)

6 Liquorice flavouring (7) 7 Thing needed to complete

a series (7,4)

8 Bridal gateau? (7,4) 13 Instrument like a lute (8) 15 Dark syrup (7)

17 Object that attracts iron (6) 20 American elk (5) 21 Canned fish (4)