2-Speed crossword

ACROSS

1 Disorder causing bitterness (8) 7 LSD, perhaps, found by a team of detectives (4) 8 Goodbye to food and water source (8) 9 Fruitless result for engineers going into farm building (6) 10 Catch the parent somehow (6) 11 Donkey goes back to study (3) 12 Drug addicts’ employers (5) 14 It could be close for comfort — or too close! (5) 16 The right old boy to steal from! (3) 18 Old Bob has a cold, and plunder brings trouble (6) 20 Treat little Reginald to a drink (6) 22 Hot German money brings everyone in for sign of gold (8) 23 Good man gets sailor to use knife (4) 24 Awful mess made of mere sofa (8)

DOWN

1 Idiot sailor on a ship (7) 2 A French/German article seen below (5) 3 Fed up, having to finish with support (6) 4 Opera for taxi-drivers? (6) 5 Grain in the brewery taken to a sunny island (5) 6 Southern hag has to change (6) 13 Actually make friend again? (6) 15 Makes five sick for a long time! (7) 16 Tell story about the dead (6) 17 But this dealer is unlikely to be poorer! (6) 19 Bind up first killer, and make it hot inside (5) 21 So tug around with relish (5)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Yellow-skin illness (8) 7 Corrosive substance (4) 8 Cheerio (8) 9 Sterile (6) 10 Snare, enmesh (6) 11 Lion’s lair (3) 12 Consumers (5) 14 Use razor (5) 16 Plunder (3) 18 Rasp, abrade (6) 20 Provide feast for (6) 22 Punched sign of authenticity on precious metal (8) 23 Wound with dagger (4) 24 Terrible, frightening (8)

DOWN

1 Male donkey (7) 2 Beneath (5) 3 Protect (6) 4 Bizet’s bullfight opera (6) 5 George Cross island (5) 6 Lamp dimmer (6) 13 Honestly (6) 15 Small town (7) 16 Narrate, recount (6) 17 Stock-market dealer (6) 19 Metal links (5) 21 Keen enjoyment (5)