TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 1 Former currency in Europe
set aside (6)
4 Basic item in centrefold? (6) 9 Dance can go wrong (5) 10 Newsreader's assistant, car
with character, we hear? (7) 11 Always set out for
mountain (7)
12 Bottle never broken (5) 13 In journey to work, can I
possibly talk? (11)
18 Sikh headwear leader
removed in the town (5) 20 Painter coming in over me,
erratically (7) 22 Keen on worker, that's
sweet (7)
23 Cornish food gone • Ending
in surrey (5)
24 Egyptian leader in sultana's
service (6)
25 Note from singer heard (6)
DOWN
1 Parcel with a lot of money! (6) 2 Moaners wrecked Italian
resort (3,4)
3 First of tablets to relieve
rib (5)
5 Film – act in it, violently (7) 6 Horse in summary, rearing
up (5)
7 Sports team appears in
novel event (6)
8 Ultimate choice from nicest
govt., a disaster! (7,4) 14 Authority also preserved
by friend (7)
15 Crime motive evident after
little time (7)
16 Bird pantin'! (6)
17 Beam comes in through
request to God (6)
19 More money working in
public transport (5)
21 Plant almost keeps up
money in India (5)
COFFEE TIME
ACROSS
1 Old Spanish currency (6) 4 Page fastener (6)
9 Dance involving a line of
people (5)
10 Electronic prompting
device (7)
11 2015 Keira Knightley film
(7)
12 Audacity (5)
13 Convey, transmit (11) 18 Belonging to a city (5) 20 Dutch painter of Girl
with a Pearl Earring (7) 22 Soft sweet (7)
23 Cornish dish (5)
24 1950s Egyptian prime
minister and president (6) 25 Informal name for a
banknote (6) DOWN 1 Bundle (6)
2 Resort on the Italian
Riviera (3,4) 3 Irritate playfully (5) 5 1912 disaster liner (7) 6 Horse trained to run at a
certain gait (5)
7 Odd number (6) 8 Chairperson's deciding
opinion (7,4) 14 Authority (7)
15 Act of betrayal (7) 16 Large-billed seabird (6) 17 Plea to God (6)
19 Added incentive (5) 21 Currency unit of India (5)