TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Set of clothes’ price

beginning to upset me (7) 5 Punches garden pests (5) 8 Left Cain’s brother a

badge (5)

9 Second parent gets

cover (7)

10 Inexperienced pilot is a

pest (8)

11 Potato with small

dessert (4)

13 Go back, without starting,

to exit (6)

15 Some had taken Yankee for

an East African (6) 18 Small county where people

go to retire? (4)

19 Routes I’d rearranged for one

unlikely to win (8)

22 Feeling of annoyance, arching

badly (7)

23 Corner is hot – pleasant to go

outside (5)

24 Stain spoilt shiny fabric (5) 25 Earliest publicity with one

girl (7)

DOWN

1 The scent of a German

city? (7)

2 Takes a break from carrying

weapon (5)

3 Unattractive quality of single

released in America (8) 4 When I enter city without a

problem (6)

5 Boy holds ring before long (4) 6 Sad upper-class husband in

diaper! (7)

7 Rip up tiny bit (5)

12 Hot fluid lies round about

city (8)

14 Art and I, awfully attractive (7) 16 Kids’ playroom has railway laid

by carer (7)

17 Hint about vase for

vegetable (6)

18 Supports those defending (5) 20 Had a chat inside Russian

dwelling (5)

21 I managed country (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Actor’s clothes (7)

5 Drams, shots (5)

8 Address tag (5)

9 Cover thickly (7)

10 Aphid (8)

11 Murphy, tattie (4)

13 Act of going out (6)

15 From an East African

country (6)

18 Areas of ground where flowers

are grown (4)

19 Competitor thought to have

little chance (8)

22 Annoyance (7)

23 Alcove (5)

24 Closely woven silk (5) 25 Basic, fundamental (7)

DOWN

1 Light perfume (7) 2 Cavalry sword (5) 3 Bad looks! (8) 4 Readily (6) 5 Anon (4)

6 Dejected (7)

7 Cut to pieces (5) 12 Capital city of Finland (8) 14 Beaming (7)

16 Baby’s room (7) 17 Allotment vegetable (6) 18 Area of Cambridge by the

river (5)

20 Russian cottage (5) 21 Country bordering

Afghanistan (4)