TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Incentive needed, getting

vehicle to go off (6)

5 A container letting

draught in? (4)

8 With expertise, I suffocate

on vegetable (9)

9 Hard attending unemployment benefit centre (3)

11 Opportunity to come round

(4)

12 Fine finish, though might

one have cracked? (8) 14 Next Ed goes out to

stretch (6) 16 Be united with business in

this place (6)

18 For example, grandfather's

story (8)

19 Group embargo on large

number (4)

22 Colourant said to perish

(3)

23 Infamous playing Troon with financial handicaps? (9)

24 Bit of a nasty eye infection!

(4)

25 Person given time to

supervise staff (6)

DOWN

2 Player, Croat, transferred (5)

3 Stretcher bearing spices?

(4)

4 Difficult to secure right

channel (6)

5 A particular form of

hostility (8)

6 Divert the late runner (7) 7 Grating glitter cad

dispersed (6,4)

10 Adds herbal remedy?

Nonsense! (10)

13 Canniest sort of example

(8)

15 Everyone in trial most lofty

(7)

17 Two cats and a drum (3-3) 20 Mango crushed in

between (5)

21 Bird fresh up round river (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Edible root (6)

5 Almost closed (4)

8 Globe ___, vegetable (9) 9 Central part of a wheel (3) 11 Rotate (4)

12 Casing that a bird hatches

from (8)

14 Elongate (6)

16 Form a whole (6) 18 Connection, link (8) 19 Group (4)

22 Artificial colour (3)

23 1946 Hitchcock thriller

with Cary Grant (9) 24 Affliction of the eyelid (4) 25 Administer (6)

DOWN

2 Dramatic performer (5) 3 Display stand (4)

4 Animal feed-container (6) 5 Dislike (8)

6 Sportsperson (7) 7 Animal-proof

entranceway (6,4) 10 Nonsense! (10)

13 Case in point (8) 15 Greatest in stature (7) 17 Drum (3-3)

20 Between (5)

21 Small brown bird (4)