2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Awkwardly patching the old garment (8)

5 Priest seen in Angola, mainly (4)

8 Excerpt from a Hungarian opera (4)

9 How like Queen Victoria, the girl thought (8)

10 Insists it’s a form of stress (7)

12 Animal seen in a fine Landseer painting (5)

13 A couple of fellows set on the boy in the brawl (6)

15 Makes up for having no seat? (6)

17 Norman is in South

Wales (5)

18 Was ballet performed in the prison here? (7)

22 The man leaving the country is German, it turns out (8)

23 Mother has eleven such skirts, perhaps (4)

24 Prong with a metal point (4) 25 Sara mostly eats fish (8)

DOWN

1 Ian perhaps catches a fish at the Falls here (7)

2 A sign, maybe, that someone invested wisely? (5) 3 Having a title, he must be of some importance (5)

4 Scale drawing of the utensil on the left (4)

6 Jack and Mark don’t drink (7) 7 Said more could be put on (5) 11 Willing, again, to have the day out (5)

12 More likely to be seen on a film set? (5)

14 Outlandish fellow to ignore? (7)

16 Reading rooms (7)

17 Set off, by rail, for somewhere in france (5)

19 Corgi, perhaps, the Queen gives a name (5)

20 Taken out and sketched (5) 21 Musical animals (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Bedtime drink (8)

5 Buddhist priest (4)

8 Operatic song (4)

9 Not pleasurably entertained (8) 10 Avers (7)

12 Antelope (5)

13 Melee (6)

15 Makes amends (6) 17 Mr Manilow? (5) 18 Well-known German prison (7)

22 Expatriate (8) 23 Full-length (4) 24 Prong (4) 25 Small fish (8)

DOWN

1 Famous Falls location (7) 2 Profits (5)

3 Enumerate (5)

4 Method (4)

6 Refrain (7)

7 Appended (5)

11 Prepared (5)

12 Additional (5)

14 Alien (7)

16 Peruses (7)

17 French port (5)

19 Saint’s name (5) 20 Attracted (5)

21 Feline animals (4)