TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Run avoiding large snake (5) 4 Say no to recession (7) 8 Base captured by spies,

turning pale (7)

9 Give out everything with

books (5)

10 Dodge goat crazed in ruthless

competition (3-3-3)

11 Have some marrow Neddy (3) 12 Superhero in club with

servant (6)

14 Fruit agent abused in

Vietnam? (6)

17 Bluejay appearing regularly

in meadow (3) 19 Confront Helen, a GLC

eccentric (9)

22 Asian politician, female

backing rugger (5) 23 Pattern to trees changes (7) 24 Unreliable man protects

informer (7)

25 Pressure in bank to

respond (5)

DOWN

1 Decoration in a hospital

room (5)

2 Plan announced for man

on board (7)

3 Dance in troubled Burma (5) 4 Maybe sixties rat in river

(6) 5 Big Ben perhaps a mistake

(7)

6 House in India: good

bathroom (5) 7 Understanding French in shelter ultimately possible (7)

12 Graduate cut amount

remaining (7)

13 Story that might be

current? (7)

15 New on street, work

incessantly (3-4)

16 Great food: not English

stuff (6)

18 Hate having a house in

Bangor’s outskirts (5) 20 Failure among close

relatives (5)

21 Hostile force in Yemen

beaten (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Viper (5)

4 Politely refuse (7) 8 Bloodless (7) 9 Apportion (5) 10 Cut-throat (3-3-3) 11 Possess or hold (3) 12 Caped Crusader (6) 14 Dutch royal house (6) 17 Pasture (3)

19 Dare (9)

22 First Indian PM (5) 23 Supporter's ribbon (7) 24 Unpredictable (7) 25 Comeback (5)

DOWN

1 Prize (5)

2 Air current (7) 3 Afro-Cuban music (5) 4 10-year period (6) 5 Serious blunder (7) 6 Inuit shelter (5) 7 Diplomatic accord (7) 12 Poise (7)

13 Financial record (7) 15 Without pause (3-4) 16 Textile cloth (6) 18 Loathe (5) 20 Defeated party (5) 21 Adversary (5)