2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Not easy getting on a vessel with this affliction (8)

5 Say you weren’t in Covent Garden yesterday (4)

8 Skills necessary in the making of a star (4)

9 My pal coming round to tea? Yes, a schoolfriend (8)

10 It causes a blackout, naturally (7)

12 Behaved very dramatically (5)

13 Instant support (6)

15 Follows the footprints (6) 17 For supper, Charles brought in some fish (5)

18 Offering to pay for the lot? (7)

22 Goes ahead and makes profit (8)

23 All the actors are given parts (4)

24 Got up to get the wine (4) 25 Tenure of property costing nothing to maintain (8)

DOWN

1 Gosh! Aren’t they a long way up! (7)

2 Animal that’s a rodent to the Spanish (5)

3 He’s out of work, but has prospects (5)

4 Fruit that’s round and tapering in appearance (4)

6 It’s interwoven with lace to make it stretch (7)

7 Give up production (5)

11 Drink out of the bowl? (5) 12 Tune the boy broadcast (5) 14 Large containers the lad put in the vehicles (7)

16 Seen coming out of the digs (7)

17 Appear topless, perhaps, in the “Sun”? (5)

19 Subject of the argument and its outcome (5)

20 I had returned with nothing from here in America (5)

21 Say you’re not satisfied with the meat (4)

COFFEE-TIME ACROSS

1 Privation (8) 5 Repudiate (4)

8 Skill (4)

9 Young companion (8) 10 Overshadow (7) 12 Performed (5) 13 Moment (6)

15 Trails (6)

17 Roost (5)

18 Command (7)

22 Goes on (8)

23 Acting company (4) 24 Ascended (4)

25 Tenure of property (8) DOWN

1 Skies (7)

2 Burrowing animal (5) 3 Expectations (5)

4 Fruit (4)

6 Stretchable material (7) 7 Surrender (5)

11 Judy’s partner (5) 12 Ventilated (5)

14 Large glass jars (7) 16 Glimpsed (7) 17 Writing-material (5) 19 Publish (5)

20 American state (5) 21 Meat (4)