2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Cut off air supply, using accelerator (8) 7 Cradle game (4) 8 Earl Blum upset the guard during storm (8) 9 A meal taken outside on boat (6) 10 The French trial is right up to date (6) 11 The old shilling? Correct (3) 12 Follow mother, on principle (5) 14 Note the danger of going fast (5) 16 Forbid graduate to go North (3) 18 Reg goes back to take cover in the aircraft (6) 20 Conjure in attempt to entertain ventriloquist (6) 22 Feel resentment when you lose drum (8) 23 Food that tends to be bolted? (4) 24 Main note is without each ending (5, 3)

DOWN

1 Another road not used in storm (7) 2 Steal from fashionable bird (5) 3 Trifle round University College Hospital could make you irritable! (6) 4 Markers left on murder victim on Sunday (6) 5 Writer’s cathedral (5) 6 Non-drinker finds ale all round improving! (6) 13 The average soothsayer? (6) 15 Singer’s shocking deeds at the Royal Academy! (7) 16 Reins, you might say, for the newlywed (6) 17 Kind of acid can rise right above one Centigrade (6) 19 Fruit derived from processing melon (5) 21 Archdeacon gets American to view heavenly body! (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Strangle, choke (8) 7 Peg-board card game (4) 8 Portable rain shelter (8) 9 Put into service (6) 10 Up-to-the-minute news (6) 11 Affirmative (3) 12 Strict principle (5) 14 Lively, businesslike (5) 16 Prohibition (3) 18 Engineless aeroplane (6) 20 Make up, devise (6) 22 Burn slowly or smokily (8) 23 Edible kernels (4) 24 Expanse of water between Russia and Turkey (5, 3) DOWN 1 2 3 4 5 6 13 15 Whirlwind (7) Redbreast bird (5) Easily upset, testy (6) Stick-on or tie-on tags (6) War of the Worlds author (5) More than good (6) Clairvoyant (6) Entertainer Frank or daughter Nancy (7) 16 Of a new wife (6) 17 Containing nitrogen (6) 19 Sour yellow fruit (5) 21 Evening Star (5)