TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

8 African creature, terrible sot, loaded (7)

9 Abrupt and rude in Battersea (5)

10 Romeo appears in silly sketch (5)

11 Put nuts in unusual transport (7)

12 Country with many a forest? (9)

15 Fish kept in creels (3)

16 Domestic needs no male help (3)

17 Recent pie ruined, most shocking here! (9)

20 Vegetable from average crop (7)

22 Gloomy bachelor in northern town (5)

24 Worry about duke in fighting force (5)

25 Turn in a clue devised for anorak (7)

DOWN

1 The endlessly good cooked meal (3,3)

2 Strangely neat Sicilian hot spot (4)

3 Hop round first gap (8)

4 Phrase enraged Himalayan guide (6)

5 Some confess to priest in bar (4)

6 Feud great with gutted Man U beaten (8)

7 Cancel recording in genuine circumstances (6)

13 Drunken ordeal and party in fabulous place (8)

14 Equestrian discipline is habit coming with time (8)

16 Mountain, cold in two areas, and beast there? (6)

18 Influence thing done by little devil (6)

19 Levene managed side (6)

21 Xmas season to these eternal stragglers? (4)

23 Attack in boxing contest (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

8 Flightless bird (7)

9 Concise (5)

10 Formulate (5)

11 Delight (7)

12 Largest island (9)

15 Evasive person (3)

16 Assistance (3)

17 Earthquake focus (9)

20 Edible root (7)

22 Heraldic black (5)

24 Group of activists (5)

25 Hooded jacket (7)

DOWN

1 Frankfurter in bun (3,3)

2 Italian volcano (4)

3 Remoteness (8)

4 Nepalese native (6)

5 Terminate (4)

6 Altercation (8)

7 Annul as law (6)

13 Legendary city (8)

14 Delicate horsemanship (8)

16 Andean animal (6)

18 Forcible contact (6)

19 Football team (6)

21 Christmas (4)

23 Ring event (4)