2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 Programme for another canoe, sir (8) 7 Strip club orchestra? (4) 8 Labour centre where compositions are made before the dance (8) 9 One being pursued in the rock arena (6) 10 A back strips while resting (6) 11 District Attorney’s returned full of sorrow (3) 12 Ridges in marine manuscript (5) 14 Statuette seen on outsize vehicle (5) 16 Returning cold – it produces nervous disorder (3) 18 Len might have a line on the gar, oddly enough (6) 20 Papal messenger uses the French entrance (6) 22 Farmer’s harvest goes right to film arranger (8) 23 Grass to study, we hear (4) 24 Refuse collectors like hightension beams, it seems (8)

DOWN 1 Height of monument is about right (7) 2 Churchman’s tree (5) 3 A learner has methods that last forever (6) 4 Entrance to raid? (6) 5 Right footwear to go round the beach (5) 6 Hymns sung as an afterthought to charity? (6) 13 Sickness suffered by mother and baroness (6) 15 Bill gets lock on showgirl! (7) 16 Are these taken by cardsharp’s methods? (6) 17 Wine-producing cartel (6) 19 Thorn destroyed in Arctic (5) 21 A female impersonation taken up by foreign coppers! (5) COFFEE TIME ACROSS 1 Dramatic plot summary (8) 7 Music group (4) 8 Repair shed, factory (8) 9 Excavate stone or marble (6) 10 Dozing (6) 11 Unhappy (3) 12 Coal veins (5) 14 Hollywood award (5) 16 Facial spasm (3) 18 Rod fisherman (6) 20 Envoy, messenger (6) 22 Essential worker (8) 23 Rush-like river plant (4)