2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 Cricketers? Not if keeping an eye on Jack! (7)

5 Musty with age, the way beer can be (5)

8 Caught with article in container (3)

9 User of it won’t gain any attention (7)

10 Open, voter could use it (5) 11 Prison disturbance (4)

12 Opera in new setting out of doors (4, 3)

14 Laugh enabling abstainer to break up row (6)

16 It is used to shoot many well-known people (6)

19 Easily won though could be out of control (7)

21 It floats right at the back (4) 24 Freezing some cakes need (5)

25 Could be a sombre man (7) 26 Have food hidden in the attic (3)

27 Creator of want (5)

28 Gets like a bully (7)

DOWN

1 Principal smell on ship (4) 2 Plant needing warmth after start of winter (5)

3 Way to get confused angler to say more (7)

4 Learn in it — if you’re a fish or a whale? (6)

5 Be unconscious of the noise one makes (5)

6 Mean? It’s Virginia’s turn to agree somehow (7)

7 Everlasting cross inside — outside, too (8)

13 Feeling bitterly cold — and in need of food? (8)

15 Extendable in steel possibly (7)

17 One engaged in much theatrical activity (7)

18 Guernsey limits speed and way some go round (6)

20 Carried on working obviously (5)

22 About fifty-four in food ingredient (5)

23 Golfing aids flow of water up north (4) COFFEE TIME ACROSS 1 Hard hats (7)

5 Not fresh (5) 8 Is able to (3) 9 Furtiveness (7) 10 Openly done (5) 11 Incite (4) 12 Outside (4, 3) 14 Giggle (6)

16 Photo taker (6) 19 Escapee (7) 21 Substitute for boat (4) 24 Cake covering (5) 25 Man’s name (7) 26 Consume (3) 27 Gluttony (5)

28 Obtains by force (7)

DOWN

1 Chief (4)

2 Grain (5)

3 Make bigger (7)

4 Train (6)

5 Nasal noise (5) 6 Ordinary (7)

7 Outer (8)

13 Dying from want (8) 15 Stretchy (7) 17 Athletic artiste (7) 18 Spin (6)

20 Engaged in (5) 22 Powdered grain (5) 23 River (4)