2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Pulling leg of draughtsman’s aid (7, 3) 8 Decline in standard (4) 9 Bully makes sailor complain (4, 4) 10 Prohibited except by blushing (6) 11 Begun to come up (6) 12 Mother reckons to hide blunder (3) 13 Feeling it stands to reason (5) 15 Takes another look at fish (5) 17 A silent call from the wood (3) 19 Doctors surrounding artists in the marsh (6) 21 Sue is a strange person from down under (6) 23 Put fewer items in catalogue when apathetic (8) 24 Fish with fingerprints (4) 25 Approve assembly that will reasonably fit the bill (4, 6)

DOWN

2 Free to show film to public (7) 3 Rag we arrange to flutter (5) 4 Absence of snobbery in the end at Twickenham (2, 4) 5 Kind of collection box for those at their post (6) 6 Writer to beat easily in golf club (7) 7 Land of the living? (5) 14 Begin to jump with fright (5, 2) 16 Cap fingered by seamstress (7) 17 Blockheads on first of September estimate… (6) 18 … attractive sound of carriage (6) 20 Ring not recorded by oil producer (5) 22 Parties in all their aspects (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Paper fastener (7, 3) 8 Droop (4) 9 Corned meat (4, 4) 10 Excluded (6) 11 Got up (6) 12 Slip up (3) 13 Meaning (5) 15 Perform on ice (5) 17 Tree (3) 19 Swamp (6) 21 Person from Antipodes (6) 23 Lethargic (8) 24 Brief applications of sponge (4) 25 Be regarded as adequate (4, 6)

DOWN

2 Let out (7) 3 Stake (5) 4 End of rugby game (2, 4) 5 Support for building (6) 6 Used by golfer (7) 7 Land going with parson’s living (5) 14 Get engine going (5, 2) 16 Used in sewing (7) 17 Appraise (6) 18 Cab (6) 20 Fruit (5) 22 Margins (5)