2-Speed crossword

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Ditches, 5 Flour, 8 Cue, 9 Cleaner, 10 Alarm, 11 Fell, 12 Patriot, 14 Emends, 16 France, 19 Tearing, 21 Laps, 24 Tripe, 25 Nettled, 26 Mud, 27 Reels, 28 Address

DOWN: 1 Duck, 2 These, 3 Handled, 4 Scraps, 5 Feast, 6 Oration, 7 Remitted, 13 Testator, 15 Examine, 17 Related, 18 Agenda, 20 Items, 22 Pulse, 23 Adds

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Some conserve drug from traffic congestion (3,2, 3) 5 Delivery at Lords dance (4) 8 Regretted we hear being boorish (4) 9 Clubs for instance worn for a solemn occasion (4, 4) 10 Batsman who is out (7) 12 Cheer-leader to conceal rebuke (5) 13 Bend over towards shed (4-2) 15 Something to which one is entitled truly (6) 17 Cautious of cleaning lady youth leader (5) 18 Into pieces the same as below (7) 22 Love from the past found flickering feebly (3, 5) 23 Plunge into bar (4) 24 Sort of family joining daughter (4) 25 Pupil power? (8)

DOWN

1 A shade unsuitable for the rain (7) 2 House begun by Henry VII and finished by Elizabeth 1 (5) 3 Decisive man of action (5) 4 Foreign currency target to be aimed at (4) 6 A way of pondering that’s funny (7) 7 Inflamed about size of wine bottle (5) 11 Cat girl (5) 12 Company refashioned fur in part of Greece (5) 14 A boy died in Christmas panto (7) 16 Term not involved in mental suffering (7) 17 It marks time with its hands on its face (5) 19 Is upset for example over eastern investment (5) 20 Party in Gateshead performing (5) 21 Willing though crippled (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Sweet spread in a jar (3,2, 3) 5 Globe (4) 8 Ill-mannered (4) 9 Sombre clothes (4, 4) 10 Worker downing tools (7) 12 Scold (5) 13 Outhouse (4-2) 15 Correctly (6) 17 Wary (5) 18 Apart (7) 22 Former sweetheart (3, 5) 23 Go head first (4) 24 Generous (4) 25 Ability to see (8)

DOWN!

1 Sunshade (7) 2 Former royal family (5) 3 Arbitrator (5) 4 Gospel (4) 6 Comical (7) 7 Metric liquid measure (5) 11 Common fund for buying beer (5) 12 Greek island (5) 14 Boy with lamp (7) 16 Tease (7) 17 Timepiece (5) 19 Surrounding of fortified town (5) 20 Acting (5) 21 Sporting contest (4)