2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Customer after torn rags for jumper? (11)

9 Fix oil platform (3)

10 Memory jogger about number left over (9)

11 Read news out having given reply (8)

12 Smile when ringleader gets drink all round (4)

14 Steal the Spanish coin (6) 16 Before noon, gets through and entertains (6)

18 A hut rebuilt in American state (4)

19 Car driver takes greatest number round dreadful riot (8) 22 Be in charge of noble census (4, 5)

23 Charge is initially for expected expenditure (3)

24 I’m kissing fifty Northern characters to find my absent ancestor (7, 4)

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2 Is furious when egghead appears in old clothes (5)

3 Wizard’s silly errors outside church (8)

4 Ranting actor allowed to do Shakespeare? (6)

5 Bucket appears white, we hear (4)

6 Tolerates goal sure to go wrong (7) 7 Aden drought affected battleship (11)

8 Leading stylist enters Red Rum — gripping race! (11) 13 Death-defying, corrupt television head comes in (8) 15 Tea I knock back with bread (7)

17 Support for newspaper feature (6)

20 One convent member bandaging foot, initially as a joke (2, 3)

21 Unusual case for playingcards (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Chirping insect (11)

9 Equip (3)

10 Items left (9)

11 Gave a reply (8)

12 Cheeky smile (4)

14 American coin (6)

16 Causes laughter (6) 18 America’s Great Salt Lake state (4)

19 Car driver (8)

22 Check of those present (4, 5)

23 Charge for a service (3)

24 Any item needed to provide continuity (7, 4)

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2 Angry outbursts (5) 3 Magician (8) 4 Group of cottages (6) 5 Bucket (4)

6 Bears, tolerates (7)

7 British big-gun battleship launched in 1906 (11)

8 Fashion guru, style icon (11) 13 Able to live forever (8) 15 Indian unleavened loaf (7) 17 Architectural pillar (6)

20 As a jest (2, 3)

21 High or low cards (4)