TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Mum left with fat bird (7) 5 Artist demanding sliced

pork strips (5)

8 Enrol strangely solitary

sort (5)

9 Socialist record in

bureaucracy (3,4)

10 Dine out with chap, duke,

as desired (2,6) 11 Swelling small yet

disastrous (4)

13 Cockney getting better in

W5 say (6)

15 City series in October

Gazette backed (6) 18 Wrong about good omen (4) 19 Avoid fish and a little fowl (8) 22 New luncheon's lost over

link with Europe (7) 23 Express view in old wood (5) 24 The French taken in down

light meal (5)

25 Current king in Hamlet

replaced (7)

DOWN

1 Discomfort in AA? Smile

falsely (7)

2 Some drivel in edition with

rules (5)

3 Hostility where an associate accepts one million (8) 4 Adventurous dancing in

drag (6)

5 Foretell of house losing

roof (4)

6 Trivial conversation about

milliner (7)

7 Polite to welcome English

relative (5)

12 Fortitude shown in personal

column? (8)

14 Stage influence is joke (34)

16 Great trade? Who cares

(3,4)

17 Slug certainly no snail! (6) 18 Darned things in boxes? (5) 20 Love trapped by one

obscure colloquialism (5) 21 Woman to have food sent

up (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Common duck (7) 5 Breakfast rashers (5) 8 Recluse (5) 9 Obstructive admin (3,4) 10 Very popular (2,6) 11 Ocular affliction (4) 13 London district (6) 15 Croatian capital (6) 18 Indication (4)

19 Young aquatic bird (8) 22 Eurostar connection (7) 23 Offer thoughts (5) 24 Course with lettuce (5) 25 Relating to heat (7)

DOWN

1 Uneasiness (7) 2 Wrinkled (5) 3 Bitterness (8) 4 Intrepid (6)

5 Portend (4)

6 Prattle (7)

7 Sibling's daughter (5) 12 Spine (8)

14 Amusing hoax (3-4) 16 Important transaction (3,4) 17 Round for gun (6) 18 Woollen footwear (5) 20 Turn of phrase (5)

21 Writer Blyton (4)