TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Recipe part cooked, no time for macaroon base (4,5) 6 Follow pointer, perhaps (3) 8 Stop a learner being hackneyed (5) 9 Flourish supporter’s food? (7) 10 One’s blooming cover off with commercial backing (8) 11 Among Icelanders, a gallant story (4) 13 The way setter is cryptic (6) 14 Breakfast to go on and on? (6) 17 Flower got out of bed (4) 19 Am I frail? Possibly it’s known (8) 22 Treated roughly, Aintree apprentice (7) 23 Tall structure one drags? (5) 24 Cool and trendy joint (3) 25 Depiction of beam in door (9)

DOWN

1 Brighton header during attack appears wild (5) 2 What may produce fir cone! (7) 3 Garment for boy, not a Romeo (8) 4 Bird gaspin’ for breath (6) 5 Call for item of jewellery

(4) 6 Tot needs a play (5) 7 Terribly enraged, this is dangerous (7) 12 Vessel is seen during run (8) 13 Time in prison to be extended (7) 15 Where golfer aims some distance? (7) 16 Run headlong into working life (6) 18 Put your foot down to get token (5) 20 Right Russian river of the countryside (5) 21 Break vessels up (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Culinary lining material (4,5) 6 Barking animal (3) 8 Clichéd (5) 9 Flourish of trumpets (7) 10 Common name for the Lent lily (8) 11 Epic story (4) 13 Paved road (6) 14 Batter cake baked in an iron (6) 17 Fragrant flower (4) 19 ___ with, accustomed to (8) 22 Apprentice (7) 23 ___ of London, tourist attraction (5) 24 Body part affected by sciatica (3) 25 Depiction (9)

DOWN

1 Crazed (5) 2 Evergreen tree (7) 3 Jersey (8) 4 Large-billed seabird (6) 5 Call on the telephone (4) 6 Art of writing and presenting plays (5)

7 Bomb that is thrown (7) 12 Container (8) 13 Elongate (7) 15 Grassy area between the tee and the green (7) 16 Course of a working life (6) 18 Bang your foot down (5) 20 Concerning the countryside (5) 21 Break (4)