TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Wrong to conceal length without hair (4)

4 Pen with no top irritated rival (8)

8 Ban hideous crones (6)

9 Blunder with mission (6)

10 Scotsman on air cooked pasta (8)

12 Dislike seen in clash at Edgbaston (4)

13 Indeed a wicked thing (6)

15 Get out with this key (6)

17 Impale vampires returning? (4)

19 After training update it for fitness (8)

21 Prawns swindle: one pockets penny (6)

22 Read of changes in top fashion (6)

23 Gender is fluid and reconciled (8)

24 Vegetable in Galilee known (4)

DOWN

2 Venue in Delaware named (5)

3 Break up underworld gang (7)

4 Paddle in old American river (3)

5 Leader here embraces Independence Day for starters (9)

6 Santa's way home? (5)

7 New on street, work continuously (3-4)

11 Page in Old English helping process (9)

14 Maybe the journos penned this! (7)

16 Cite lad for wrecking fortress (7)

18 Fawn in tropical grass loves leaving island (5)

20 Good to stop serious, sombre song (5)

22 Trend seen regularly in fraud (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Hairless (4)

4 Adversary (8)

8 Expurgate (6)

9 Short assignment (6)

10 Pasta tubes (8)

12 Loathe (4)

13 Wax light (6)

15 Getaway (6)

17 Pierce (4)

19 Suitability (8)

21 Shrimp dish (6)

22 Hat style (6)

23 Stepped down (8)

24 Welsh emblem (4)

DOWN

2 Sphere of activity (5)

3 Dissolve (7)

4 Rowing lever (3)

5 Head of state (9)

6 Compass point (5)

7 Incessant (3-4)

11 Surgical procedure (9)

14 Item (7)

16 Urban stronghold (7)

18 Disney deer (5)

20 Funeral hymn (5)

22 Fleeting craze (3)