2-Speed crossword

ACROSS

1 Pat is training me in a hobby (7) 5 Said more is to be put on (5) 8 Follow Rita running to the bottom of the hill (5) 9 Walks a short way to the car (7) 10 Escorted mother inside to seethe impresario (7) 11 Spinning machine (5) 12 Carrying a gun’s a felonious act, and a bit dangerous (6) 14 Animals left out of the stables, perhaps (6) 17 Brian is a strange child (5) 19 Book a vehicle large enough for the whole family (7) 22 More than a normal appetite for caviare? (7) 23 Sure to be tied up (5) 24 Old, but still attractive to men, obviously (5) 25 The pedal is altered incorrectly (7)

DOWN

1 In the shop, ate some food from the delicatessen (5) 2 Tickets for the four we get every year (7) 3 Mali’s new religion (5) 4 Agnes and I are out relaxing (6) 5 Make what could be a big read shorter (7) 6 I held out in the city (5) 7 They may be just vast expanses of barren country (7) 12 Blame for the attack on the pub? (7) 13 Liked to dance if taken out (7) 15 Having been tamed is quite gentle (7) 16 He’s not crooked; just the opposite (6) 18 Unfit, Ian perhaps needs to take exercises (5) 20 Gentleman the French take to be an aristocrat (5) 21 Go sideways through the gaps I’d left in the hedge (5)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Hobby (7) 5 Appended (5) 8 Path (5) 9 Walks leisurely (7) 10 Entertainer (7) 11 Less rainy (5) 12 Hazardous (6) 14 Creatures (6) 17 Child (5) 19 Public vehicle (7) 22 Greed (7) 23 Spring (5) 24 Antiquated (5) 25 Foot-lever (7)

DOWN

1 Savoury spreads (5) 2 Times of year (7) 3 Mohammedanism (5) 4 Relieving (6) 5 Shorten (7) 6 Asian capital city (5) 7 Abandons (7) 12 Reproach (7) 13 Imagined (7) 15 Overpowered (7) 16 Trustworthy (6) 18 Not appropriate (5) 20 Aristocratic (5) 21 Move sideways (5)