2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Little notes containing unpleasant ire bring thoughts of the past (8)

5 Powder in hospital, casualty (4)

9 Article about professional’s pinny (5)

10 Nothing to turn up before period of fasting — that’s rich! (7)

11 Thus a soft cleaning material (4)

12 Yes, in Spain, our country trapped animal before I made Japanese dish (8)

14 One may be, if due one! (6) 15 Creature to rage about Women’s Institute (6) 18 Delivery eventually going off? (3, 5)

20 Turns to a New Testament book (4)

22 Does ice form in bishop’s area? (7)

23 Look around in the river (5) 24 Lock finds some key, a lever (4)

25 Levy country put on king where hire cars available (4, 4)

DOWN

1 Atoms smashed in defensive ditches (5)

2 Fabled creature I rammed at sea (7)

3 Extend ladder (3)

4 Leaving an Old Testament book (6)

6 Stadium for region round the North (5)

7 Sarcastic article extracted from a newspaper (7)

8 Joke about girl being moralist (7)

13 Wilder and rearing to go? (7) 14 Woman in sacred period of rest (7)

16 In Greenwich it appears to be an American city (7)

17 Arrived with artist to get photographer’s equipment (6) 19 Develop large menacing sound (5)

21 Polished small vegetable (5) 23 His kit contains snowshoe (3)

COFFEE-TIME

ACROSS

1 Images from the past (8) 5 After-bath powder (4) 9 Article of kitchen clothing (5) 10 Lavish (7)

11 Cleansing bar (4)

12 Japanese dish of fried meat (8)

14 Concealing (6)

15 Clawed insect (6)

18 Ball which deviates after pitching, in cricket (3, 5)

20 Deeds (4)

22 Area under the pastoral care of a bishop (7)

23 Major French river (5)

24 Cylinder-type doorlock (4) 25 Line of hire cars (4, 4)

DOWN

1 Castle ditches (5)

2 Fabled sea creature (7) 3 Stocking ladder (3)

4 Mass departure (6) 6 Amphitheatre (5) 7 Newspaper clipping (7) 8 17th-century reformed Protestant (7)

13 Crosser (7)

14 Vacation (7)

16 City in Kansas (7) 17 Apparatus for taking photographs (6)

19 Aggressive dog sound (5) 21 Glossy (5)

23 Glide across snow (3)