TAKE A BREAK TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Art and I, awfully bright (7) 5 Proper person's first to
dress fussily (5)
8 Popular group's minor page (5) 9 Making a mistake about a
piece of jewellery (7) 10 Ominous time where
teams losing leader (4) 11 Let in, or let out? (8) 13 Expensive, like Everest? (5) 14 Something vacuumed up, a
mistake (5)
19 Shade has to match,
claimed by writer (3,5) 21 Insect finds piece of foliage
back to front (4)
23 Bring back remainder,
basic mineral (7)
24 Army subdivision's bad
time to retreat (5) 25 Those people with eastern
subject (5)
26 He sells? You bet! (7)
DOWN
1 Liftin' fruit (6)
2 Speaker's to abandon
afters (7)
3 Bible book cast out (4) 4 Fashionable attempt to
accept conclusion (6) 5 Quiet thing, a little bit (8) 6 Fool offered identification,
a little bit short (5) 7 Temple where a heavenly
being embraced by father (6) 12 Terrifying, though more
safe, surprisingly (8) 15 Quarrel, and leave the
parade ground (4,3) 16 Trips I organised to find a
ghost (6)
17 Leave your country, given
imperfection (6)
18 Spoil many in publication (6) 20 Passage in Medea is learnt
by heart (5)
22 Cease up-ending vessels (4)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 Beaming (7)
5 Dress fussily (5)
8 Added small photo (5) 9 Dangly jewellery item (7) 10 Caesar's March date (4) 11 Acknowledged (8) 13 Expensive or inclined (5) 14 Botch (one's lines) (5) 19 Bright grassy colour (3,5) 21 Bloodsucking insect (4) 23 Hand back (7)
24 Band (5)
25 Subject matter (5) 26 Betting pundit (7)
DOWN
1 Dried fruit (6)
2 Final course (7) 3 Deeds (4)
4 Chic, fashionable (6) 5 Body that might be subatomic or alpha in physics (8) 6 Blockhead (5)
7 Buddhist temple (6) 12 Causing fright (8) 15 Bicker (4,3) 16 Alcohol solution (6) 17 Blemish, fault (6) 18 Coddle (6)
20 Central walkway of a
church (5)
22 Cease (4)