TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Man grabs ref to, perhaps,

show sheer strength (5,5) 8 Left in just the natural

ability (5)

9 Exhausted, as a cricket

team just behind? (3,4) 10 Huge insect after male in

the morning (7)

11 Writer's difficult year (5) 12 To start a business, she's

put off operation (3,2,4) 15 Crowd, by the sound of it,

in store (5)

17 Devious girl pinching travel

document on the way

back (7)

19 Equilibrium shown by seaman withdrawing harpoon-like weapon (7) 20 Mistakenly pay HP

content (5)

21 Labour protest this will reduce production (4-24)

DOWN

2 Kingdom providing true

leader of men (5)

3 Eject the crowd (4,3) 4 Keep odd pens there,

temporarily (3,3,7) 5 Managed church farm (5) 6 Self-inflating action causing dreadful riot with Peg (3,4)

7 Resentment seen in

diplomat dropping round (4) 8 Celebrity offering two

notes (4)

12 Everyone during exhibition

is superficial (7)

13 Girl finds male with broken

heart (7)

14 Study final piece of testimony, and declare untrue (4)

15 Tramp in Soho, booted (4) 16 One giving blood, say, giving

name in entrance (5) 18 Mischievous child wanted

by the Spanish force (5)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Brawn, muscle (5,5) 8 Aptitude (5)

9 Analysis (7)

10 Ancient woolly beast (7) 11 Durable (5)

12 Establish a business (3,2,4) 15 Collect, amass (5) 17 Cagey (7)

19 Amount of money in an

account (7)

20 Cheerful, merry (5) 21 Action whereby employees adhere strictly to the terms of their contracts (4-2-4)

DOWN

2 Domain (5) 3 Appearance (7) 4 During the period under consideration (3,3,7) 5 American cattle farm (5) 6 Action inflating one's selfimportance (3,4)

7 Be jealous of (4) 8 Celebrity (4)

12 Far from deep (7) 13 Common low-growing

shrub (7)

14 Contradict (4) 15 American vagrant (4) 16 Benefactor (5)

18 Drive (5)