Business Day

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

8 Carter wrong to carry round nuclear device (7)

9 Some despair at employer being angry (5)

10 Landscape surveyed we hear (5)

11 King in apparently empty county? (7)

12 Volume setting? (9)

14 Drink that's unusual (3)

16 Moderately Conservati­ve name Left must expel (3)

17 Sound bell for knockout? (9)

19 Heathen in ploughed field (7)

21 Stuffing rook into pot is cruel (5)

22 Support for canvasser? (5)

23 City bombed in Germany or China (7)

DOWN

1 Tell-tale weapon? (8)

2 Our mutual confidant? (8)

3 Some nasty eye inflammati­on (4)

4 Pro not playing now (6)

5 Former PM wandering in arid isle (8)

6 In church a lovely saintly ring (4)

7 Magistrate's bill (4)

13 Clues he'd arranged in list (8)

14 Gear altered with dart for tailors? (3,5)

15 Store keeper's French sea shanty? (8)

18 Complaint from youth in spring month (6)

19 Some Euclidean theory (4) 20 Female quiet about one angle (4)

21 On radio man would listen (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

8 Atomic power plant (7)

9 Furious (5)

10 Setting (5)

11 Norwich location (7)

12 Readers' shop (9)

14 Jamaican spirit (3)

16 Drenched (3)

17 Exceptiona­lly good thing (9)

19 Unbeliever (7)

21 Draconian (5)

22 Painter's stand (5)

23 Fine porcelain (7)

DOWN

1 Medieval weapon (8)

2 Upright with hinges (8)

3 Eyelid swelling (4)

4 Quickly (6)

5 PM before Gladstone (8)

6 Angelic symbol (4)

7 Bird mouth part (4)

13 Timetable (8)

14 Garment business (3,5)

15 Dealer (8)

18 Ailment (6)

19 Notion (4)

20 Pike or perch (4)

21 Follow (4)

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