TAKE A BREAK

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Top toast cooked around

little yam (5,6)

8 Look to swallow first of vitamins, but waste away (6)

9 College official transformed lad into busy worker (6)

10 Searching to capture

something curved (4) 11 Delight at the door (8) 12 Tact no use from mouse –

perhaps he'll catch it! (6) 14 Conviction for putting

large one in meat (6) 15 Man in trick committing sin

(8)

17 Apes destroyed part of

church (4)

18 French woman gets first

man to interrupt me (6) 19 County of Northern Ireland where social worker on edge (6)

20 Newly sealed variety of

cheese (11)

DOWN

2 Upset at brown meat, a

pond creature (5,7)

3 This planet's broken heart

(5)

4 Serpent at sea can make

one tense (7)

5 Gamble after it returned

to Himalayan region (5)

6 A vanquished leader during route finding hard work (7)

7 Sink cello peg into another

instrument (12) 13 Conservative somehow heard about a silly pretence (7)

14 Cases – one may hold fruit

(7)

16 Times broadcast pieces of

news (5)

17 Naughty cadet went on the

stage (5)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Edible tropical tuber (5,6) 8 Deprive of food (6)

9 Old parish constable (6) 10 Bridge's curved span (4) 11 Admission point (8) 12 Male domestic feline (6) 14 Conviction (6) 15 Digressing (8)

17 Altar projection (4) 18 French for 'Mrs' (6) 19 Belfast's county (6) 20 Breed of long-woolled

sheep (11)

DOWN

2 Aquatic bug related to the

backswimmer (5,7)

3 Our planet (5)

4 Birthday gift (7)

5 Dalai Lama's homeland (5) 6 Effort (7)

7 Instrument struck with

hammers (12) 13 Absurd farce (7) 14 Cases, for example (7) 16 Articles (5)

17 Feigned (5)