TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Tramp and lads beaten up,

getting a shiner (8,4) 9 Legal defence of some

Svengali, bizarre (5) 10 Caterer demolished row of

houses (7)

11 Footwear to turn and fail

(4-4)

12 South American footballer

in Europe, legendary (4) 14 First to tackle fish gets

untidy mess (6)

15 Mat for vehicle and dog,

perhaps (6)

18 Account for the man (4) 20 Nice tree, perhaps, holding

sea off (8)

23 Teach about a union leader

in French castle (7) 24 Water where canoe

capsizes (5) 25 Unexpectedly used up

turquoise? (3,2,3,4)

DOWN

2 Teaching around university,

moving into it (7) 3 Manicurist's tool should fail

badly in river (4-4)

4 Writer gives gold to god (6) 5 Challenge for five

hundred, time up (4) 6 Astound with a place to

get lost (5)

7 Give, now! (7)

8 Baby cow's leg part (4) 13 Underground cemetery for

feline with a tool for hair (8) 14 Leaves smoked to endlessly support company (7)

16 Level high ground where

Paul ate rubbish (7) 17 Detective creates hustle (6) 19 Most insignificant, English

coming in at the rear (5) 21 A fanatic turned up to see

fish (4)

22 Complain about the meat (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Domestic light (8,4) 9 Courtroom 'elsewhere'

plea (5)

10 Continuous house row (7) 11 Beach footwear item (4-4) 12 Brazilian soccer legend (4) 14 Confused interwoven mass (6) 15 Floor covering (6)

18 Bird's beak (4) 20 Congenial, cordial (8) 23 French castle (7) 24 Atlantic or Pacific, eg (5) 25 From nowhere (3,2,3,4)

DOWN

2 Coaching (7)

3 Emery board (4-4) 4 Novelist (6)

5 Be bold enough (4) 6 Astonish (5)

7 Birthday gift (7)

8 Animal from which veal is

obtained (4) 13 Burial chamber (8) 14 Cigarette or pipe product (7) 16 Area of flat raised land (7) 17 Investigator (6)

19 Fewest (5)

21 Canned fish (4)

22 Brawn (4)