TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Truancy in the morning, is

bee sent flying? (11) 8 Costly fare for vehicle to

circle Roman road (6) 9 Agent admitting cut

appears careless (6) 10 Right to leave cook in the

kiln (4)

11 Renovating the circle – not

hard, but exciting (8) 12 Two months to take the

essence (6)

14 Cloak initially put on, half

chosen (6)

15 Sporting Post angry at

drinks counter (8) 17 Religious leader in shop,

open (4)

18 Partly turn a handle, run a machine, produce fertiliser (6)

19 Creature turns into salami,

naturally! (6)

20 Journey's end, distant one

I suspect (11)

DOWN

2 Withdraw, exhausted, to a

place of seclusion (4,1,7) 3 Chuck out wild civet (5) 4 Rush for cost of hiring a

hill? (7)

5 A portion of sodden suet

to follow (5)

6 Cut hornets in pieces (7) 7 Hip group ain't smashing

instrument (7,5)

13 Blot out what's not

generally known (7) 14 Refer to unreliable painter

(7)

16 Make sheepish noise, and

thrash about fifty (5) 17 Nothing in beer that's sharp

(5)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Habitual avoidance of work for no good reason (11)

8 Sturgeon eggs (6) 9 Careless, lax (6)

10 Hop kiln (4)

11 Sizzling with atmosphere (8) 12 Extract by boiling (6) 14 Blanket-like cloak (6) 15 Goalpost's horizontal beam

(8)

17 Bishop of Rome (4)

18 Dung (6)

19 Beast, creature (6)

20 Aim of a journey (11)

DOWN

2 Leg it (4,1,7) 3 Dislodge (5) 4 Cascade (7)

5 Be consequent on (5) 6 Abbreviate (7)

7 Large instrument (7,5) 13 Abstruse (7)

14 Belong (7)

16 Complain feebly (5) 17 Direct, aim (5)