2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

7 Heralds double fracture of bone (8, 5)

8 Ring company about tax return for paper size (6)

9 Has a hankering for stories about the east (6)

10 Blemish in his career (4) 11 Circle round every one, getting there (8)

14 Adopts Eastern wives (8) 16 Quote in place, they say (4) 17 Looked at the man left without a place to sleep (6) 20 First of numbers should be nil (6)

21 Athlete in hood prepared traditional dish (4-2-3-4)

DOWN

1 Selections involving cold, cold desserts (4-4)

2 Home help to the French couple (2, 4)

3 Postpones advert on newspapers with a Liberal omission (8)

4 In ancient royal city (4) 5 Chemical partly unstable, a chloride (6)

6 Need sort of paradise (4) 12 Liqueur swirling round the basin (8)

13 A case that’s hard to crack (8)

15 Exaggerate beyond party (6)

16 Anything following cold is got by infection (6)

18 Greek god with tender back! (4)

19 Refuse in study close to trolley (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

7 Common name for the scapula (8, 5)

8 Book size (6)

9 ___ for, craves (6)

10 Blemish (4)

11 Arriving at (8)

14 Embraces (a cause) (8) 16 Mention, quote (4) 17 Looked at, poetically (6) 20 Zero (6)

21 Dish of sausages baked in batter (4-2-3-4)

DOWN

1 Frozen desserts (4-4) 2 Foreign home help (2, 4)

3 Has a courtroom break (8) 4 City of the wooden horse (4) 5 Cleaning agent (6)

6 Old Testament garden (4) 12 Green liqueur once made with wormwood (8)

13 Almond’s casing (8)

15 Carry too far (6) 16 Apprehended (6) 18 Aphrodite’s son (4) 19 Contradict (4)