Sunday Times

2-Speed Crossword

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Endurance test for unusual hat, Norma (8)

7 Food for fat little youngster (4)

8 Grenade explodes in front of Oriental turncoat (8)

9 Fired? Let troubles be small! (6)

10 Small spade in this rubber? That’s about right (6)

11 Rex begins with the old corn! (3)

12 A York soldier precedes the French, being nimble (5)

14 Casual secretary gets ring just in time (5)

16 Expert swimmer (3)

18 Santa gets Eastern part of legal document (6)

20 Hunter gets very large victim (6)

22 Dull — like the position of director? (8)

23 Points at cow (4)

24 Gave beer, ordered another drink (8)

DOWN

1 Spoil the monarch with means of identifica­tion (7)

2 Raise money illegally to get back computeris­ed tool (5)

3 Factory miller or painter (6)

4 Ruins are not very decorative (6)

5 George, in Cornish town, has to move (5)

6 Set aside gin cocktail on the rocks (6)

13 Window of the French museum (6)

15 Explanator­y statement to put judge in step (7)

16 Girl coming out had a meal after talk (6)

17 Beer container kept by nondrinker in trunk (6)

19 Cover four in, getting angry! (5)

21 Beast kept in pad — an outrage (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Long run (8)

7 Insect larva (4) 8 Backslider, apostate (8)

9 Tiny (6)

10 Garden tool (6)

11 US whiskey (3)

12 Sprightly (5)

14 Musical pace (5)

16 Flatfish (3)

18 Part of sentence (6)

20 Fishing eagle (6)

22 Heavily clouded (8)

23 Undiluted (4)

24 Liquid for drinking (8)

DOWN

1 Scoring, labelling (7) 2 Mechanical man (5)

3 Lathe-worker (6)

4 Elaboratel­y designed (6)

5 Push from position (5) 6 Disregard (6)

13 Slatted door or window (6)

15 Introducto­ry chapter (7)

16 Discussion (6)

17 Glass container (6)

19 Deathly pale (5)

21 Black-and-white bamboo eater (5)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Bowlers 5 Stale 8 Can 9 Stealth 10 Overt 11 Stir 12 Open air 14 Titter 16 Camera 19 Runaway 21 Raft 24 Icing 25 Ambrose 26 Eat 27 Greed 28 Extorts

DOWN: 1 Boss 2 Wheat 3 Enlarge 4 School 5 Snore 6 Average 7 External 13 Starving 15 Tensile 17 Acrobat 18 Gyrate 20 Waged 22 Flour 23 Tees

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