TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Gorge cheese (7)

5 Expert admits trainee is

outspoken (5)

8 Courage never broken (5) 9 Bird left one nut lying

around (7)

10 Carol follows regular

church service (8) 11 Depend on right cathedral

city (4)

13 Court duty can be arduous (6) 15 Greedy person girl comes

in to fetch (6)

18 Unable to hear fade-out (4) 19 Tent Dave dismantled

resulted in a feud (8) 22 Takes no notice of

devastated regions (7) 23 Accuse poor Mabel (5) 24 Left port with cargo

aboard (5)

25 Mean to issue a statement

before very long (7)

DOWN

1 Volume that gives

satisfaction (7)

2 English lake in North

America? Weird! (5) 3 Getting into gear (8) 4 Regret taking exercise in

break (6)

5 Lock up and run off (4) 6 Relative with article that is

dirty (7)

7 Strange but amusing (5) 12 Bone idle man worried

about bishop (8)

14 Longed to convert deanery

(7)

16 Top equipment for the

high-flyer (7)

17 Japanese hostess works

out his age (6)

18 Such material can be a bore

(5)

20 One taken in by an informer over jewelled valuable (5)

21 Bighead organised source

of fibre (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 English cheese (7) 5 Deceive by pretending (5) 8 Audacity (5)

9 Big-billed water-bird (7) 10 Church service late in the

day (8)

11 Bank (on) (4)

13 Annoying (6)

15 Diving fish-eating bird (6) 18 Hard of hearing (4) 19 Bitter and prolonged state

of enmity (8)

22 Disregards (7)

23 Accuse (5)

24 Burdened (5) 25 Arithmetic mean (7)

DOWN

1 At ease (7) 2 Frighteningly odd (5) 3 Adorning (8) 4 Be contrite (6)

5 Arrow fired by a crossbow

(4)

6 Contaminated (7) 7 Amusing, humorous (5) 12 Jaw (8)

14 Craved (for) (7)

16 Circus apparatus (7) 17 Japanese dancing girl (6) 18 Bore (a hole) (5) 20 Bejewelled headband (5) 21 Cereal fibre (4)