TAKE A BREAK TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Fool choosing to be

fussy (3-7)

8 Sauce not separated when

held back (5)

9 Tycoon gives degree to

foreign agent (7) 10 Reportedly, money and gold right for mythical beast (7)

11 Fine good man in Scottish

river (5)

12 The planes may be

jumbos (9)

15 Greek bread is mine,

thanks! (5) 17 Chats about ten rats (7) 19 His one law about Kenyan

language (7)

20 Less common, and more

lightly cooked (5) 21 Students found amongst disgusting rats ever the wanderers (10)

DOWN

2 Ben is novel writer (5) 3 Head receives loot in

confirmation of will (7) 4 Prince, he moves about

state school (13)

5 Being popular, received

piece of gold (5) 6 Tumblers’ spectacles (7) 7 Refuse in yard overlooked

by study (4)

8 Get ready to leave some

scouts (4)

12 Competitor in event ran

third (7)

13 A nut nutty, real not

English, unprocessed (7) 14 Ruler beginning the story

about Russia (4) 15 Upper-class pound

shop (4)

16 Name a consumer said (5) 18 Dread losing first letter –

it ’ s a mistake (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Carping over minor points

(3-7)

8 Basil-based Italian

sauce (5)

9 Mogul (7)

10 Half man, half horse, in

Greek mythology (7) 11 Appetising (5)

12 African animals (9) 15 Bread used for kebabs (5) 17 Gossips (7)

19 African language (7) 20 Harder to come by (5) 21 Itinerants (10)

DOWN

2 ‘ Peer Gynt’ author (5) 3 Confirmation of a will (7) 4 Dealing with almost all

aspects (13)

5 Bar of bullion (5)

6 Clear drinking vessels (7) 7 Contradict (4) 8 Compress (4) 12 Candidate (7)

13 Existing in the physical

world, not artificial (7) 14 Old Russian emperor (4) 15 Exclusive, upmarket (4) 16 First name of authors

Shreve and Brookner (5) 18 Blunder (5)