2-Speed crossword

ACROSS

1 Talk about sound of Olympic event (6) 4 Did time in prison protected from frost (6) 7 Chief water carrier (4) 8 Return thanks to softhearted churchgoer (8) 9 Defer disturbing puss before finish (7) 12 Part of steady endeavor producing stain (3) 14 Did a smooth job on board (6) 15 More enthusiastic Irish mourner (6) 16 Nothing in Northern Ireland left (3) 18 Popular dance at the hunt ball? (7) 22 Paining a strange violinist and composer (8) 23 Family business (4) 24 Small creature given equipment before 10 (6) 25 Growth mushrooming into a beard? (6)

DOWN

1 Curse mother country (9) 2 Europeans register cake (5, 4) 3 Prize for Apache (5) 4 Spill the beans to the French heavyweight (3, 2) 5 Left infatuated (4) 6 Poetic lament for example found in cathedral (5) 10 Library’s place for the rest of the books (5) 11 Gloomy daughter to bring up (5) 12 Finished with object of conventional behavior (4, 5) 13 Excessive punctuality of peer in eastern ship (9) 17 Provisionals question one Arab (5) 19 Stars belted hunter with sword (5) 20 Criminal if the switch is made (5) 21 Virginia has street that’s enormous (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Thrown by athletes (6) 4 Trailed behind (6) 7 Most important (4) 8 Person present (8) 9 Hang (7) 12 Colouring liquid (3) 14 Smoothed clothes (6) 15 More acute (6) 16 No points (3) 18 Dance (7) 22 Famous violinist of old (8) 23 Part of poem (4) 24 Small pet (6) 25 Mushroom for instance (6)

DOWN

1 Eternal punishment (9) 2 Cylindrical cake (5, 4) 3 Part of head (5) 4 Reveal secret (3, 2) 5 Departed (4) 6 Song of lamentation (5) 10 Ledge (5) 11 Dismal (5) 12 Action dictated by convention (4, 5) 13 Arriving before time (9) 17 Middle Easterner (5) 19 Group of stars (5) 20 Robber (5) 21 Immense (4)