TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

8 Do this so lucre won't be

filthy? (7)

9 Has to enter the French

city (5)

10 Amber perhaps about to

commit crime (5) 11 Middle-easterner is terribly

real one (7)

12 Fellow in tangle with men

bashed (9)

14 Piece from rabbi thoughtful

(3)

16 Match clothing accessory

(3)

17 Delivery secures wicket

and point in game (9) 19 A nobleman outside

caught story (7)

21 Old number three fouled

(5)

22 Golfers wishing to score

with this bird? (5) 23 Empowers baleens

thrashing (7)

DOWN

1 No socialists, okay? (3,5) 2 Irritation is in subtle

difference (8)

3 Paradise in secured

enclosure (4)

4 Saw drunk sit with rum (6) 5 Instrument at home

opening red wine (8) 6 500 are to be brave (4) 7 Star witnesses not entirely

marvellous (4)

13 Party with monarch

showing hand (8) 14 Bishop battered Othello in

refuge (8)

15 Form view gold is found in

the east (8)

18 Threaten to go out in

channel (6)

19 Bader almost beaten in

retirement (4) 20 Composer in prison (4) 21 Chinese lanterns

embodying style (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

8 Wash and iron (7) 9 Tibetan capital (5) 10 Tree exudation (5) 11 Nazareth native (7) 12 Courteous male (9) 14 Part (3)

16 Neckwear item (3) 17 Unimportant thing (9) 19 Financial record (7) 21 Old anaesthetic (5) 22 American symbol (5) 23 Facilitates (7)

DOWN

1 Fine (3,5)

2 Pest (8)

3 Biblical garden (4) 4 Platitude (6)

5 Jazz instrument (8) 6 Venture (4)

7 The Three Wise Men (4) 13 Unskilled worker (8) 14 Secluded place (8) 15 Speculate (8) 18 Rainwater drain (6) 19 Sleeping (4) 20 Avian enclosure (4) 21 Panache (4)