TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Falsely accuses pale European in part of contract (6,6)
9 Studying garden I
cultivated (7)
10 Bandit took some of the
same again (5) 11 Smoother lifestyle (4) 12 Person inwardly breaking
nose, pixie (7)
15 Intimidate adolescent Wild
West character (6) 16 Insect might take to the air (6) 19 Part of the body with
awfully bad prediction (7) 21 Volcano found in Phuket,
naturally (4)
24 Dance beat with energy (5) 25 Drink in the breeze (7) 26 Fail to understand, and
reprint items wrongly (12)
DOWN
2 Everybody in revue is
superficial (7)
3 A group of detectives is
bitter (4)
4 Power unit raised in benign
environment (6)
5 Left Dorset resort without
a guiding light (8)
6 Up to the moment
peacekeepers fired up (5) 7 Deity with painful back (4) 8 Match official in step with
book's introduction (7) 13 Try very hard to travel to
urban area (2,2,4) 14 Extremely dingy and
unpleasant house (7) 17 Weariness from wretched
ague fit (7)
18 Reportedly use a bike to
sell door-to-door (6) 20 British leader has
responsibility for extra pay (5) 22 Staunch supporter of a
plant (4)
23 Automobile by quiet fish (4)
COFFEE TIME
ACROSS
1 Part of a contract (6,6) 9 Location of the Madejski
Stadium (7)
10 As above (5)
11 Dossier (4)
12 Individually (7)
15 Character in a western (6) 16 Short-lived insect (6) 19 Lower section of an insect (7) 21 Active volcano in eastern
Sicily (4)
24 Ballroom dance (5)
25 Air current (7)
26 Get hold of the wrong end of
the stick of (something) (12)
DOWN
2 Far from deep (7)
3 Any non-alkali (4)
4 Motor in a car (6) 5 Guiding heavenly body (8) 6 As far as (5)
7 Aphrodite's son (4)
8 Book's introductory text (7) 13 Act with great enthusiasm
(2,2,4)
14 1980s American TV soap
opera (7)
17 Exhaustion (7)
18 Hawk (6)
20 Added incentive (5) 22 Arise (from) (4) 23 Common freshwater fish (4)