2-Speed Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Prisoner’s account, note, is second-hand (7) 8 One apprentice left with head complaint (7) 9 Secure draw for Irish county (3, 4) 10 Up to the moment peacekeepers fired back (5) 11 City limits unfashionable women’s clothing (9) 14 Extreme fear when leaders of Hungary and Oman by mistake decapitated (6) 15 That woman’s working flyer (5) 16 Amount of anaesthetic? (6) 20 Elastic to carry the wounded? (9) 23 Plenty of paper to obliterate smear (5) 24 Agrees with friends after time (7) 25 Fruit from a vine initially, turning firm at a party (7) 26 Once more sat or lay down (7)
DOWN
1 Deed exhibited by leaderless dissenting group (6) 2 Make article in Greek island (6) 3 Mass of hair causing surprise (5) 4 Person eating at home wearing red, retired (5) 5 Hear sad music playing, make light jacket (7) 6 Sweet stuff close round court (6) 7 Stable boy stole round by river (6) 12 Nitre unusually static (5) 13 Model tights — but not these! (5) 15 Shane is shredding coarse fabric (7) 16 Certainly not about right for Scandinavian country (6) 17 Maybe mowed a field of grass (6) 18 Charles going around in fetters (6) 19 Journalist, after ages, expunged (6) 21 It turns either way (5) 22 Flower poorly lit up (5)
COFFEE-TIME
ACROSS
1 Pointed the finger at (7) 8 Disorder of health (7) 9 Bind by conditions (3, 4) 10 To such time as (5) 11 Peripheral areas (of a town) (9) 14 Scary film genre (6) 15 Large wading bird (5) 16 Digit, figure (6) 20 Portable bed for a patient (9) 23 Quantities of paper (5) 24 Keeps score (7) 25 Pear-shaped fruit (7) 26 Rested (7)
DOWN
1 Film director’s cry (6) 2 Invent, make (6) 3 Jolt of electricity (5) 4 Restaurant guest (5) 5 Short loose jacket (7) 6 Flower’s sweet liquid (6) 7 Stable lad at an inn (6) 12 Chemically inactive (5) 13 The objects over there (5) 15 Sacking material (7) 16 Oslo’s country (6) 17 Field, pasture (6) 18 Mountain ranges (6) 19 Rubbed out (6) 21 Helicopter blade (5) 22 Dutch bulb flower