2-Speed crossword
ACROSS
1 Two birds at daybreak (8) 5 Remaining Socialist (4) 8 Master sound of praise (4) 9 One piece close to another — but not all at once (3,2,3) 10 Work in the theatre (7) 12 Almost fail to remember Smith’s place (5) 13 Number in form (6) 15 Animal doing graduate a favour (6) 17 Live in a depressed state downstairs (5) 18 Worry observed in cutter (7) 22 Money of genuine character (8) 23 Menagerie taken by Frenchman with this kind of lens (4) 24 Boy adds key melody (4) 25 She gets a crown for dancing round the pole (3, 5)
DOWN
1 Give order to stop cry from backstage (4, 3) 2 What keeps paratrooper in suspense (5) 3 Light traffic controller (5) 4 Scots inventor who got all steamed up? (4) 6 Ban on amber changing to green (7) 7 Honour that could lift one out of the common (5) 11 Artist upset over quarrel with projectile (5) 12 Cost of journey left inside light signal (5) 14 All gone to reconstruct old sailing ship (7) 16 On paper he’s a worker (7) 17 Band leader avails himself of public transport (5) 19 Public school game (5) 20 Pinched shawl (5) 21 Entertainment for people with thin skin? (4)
COFFEE TIME
ACROSS
1 Dawn (8) 5 Departed (4) 8 Extol (4) 9 Gradually (3,2,3) 10 Function (7) 12 Counterfeit (5) 13 Shape (5) 15 Large monkey (6) 17 Underneath (5) 18 Cutting tool (7) 22 The pound (8) 23 Plane’s steep climb (4) 24 Tune (4) 25 Girl crowned at spring festival (3, 5)
DOWN
1 Cancel (4, 3) 2 Waterfall (5) 3 Automation (5) 4 Electricity unit (4) 6 Prohibition (7) 7 Name (5) 11 Fired from bow (5) 12 Blaze up (5) 14 Spanish treasure ship (7) 16 Reporter (7) 17 Coaches (5) 19 Football (5) 20 Woman’s wrap (5) 21 Movie (4)