2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Journalist in luck, known eccentric to get cracking (7,4) 9 King Bill going around the bend (3)

10 Film fan, me? I go over madly (5-4)

11 And lover falters, avoiding sea routes (8)

12 Copied a quiet journalist (4) 14 The route that is taken by pop tour worker (6)

16 Parliament isn’t sitting in this corner (6)

18 Unknown among one sort of cattle (4)

19 Fir cones involved with such investigative science (8) 22 Transformed shirt-clad celebrity kid (5, 4)

23 No return from this expert (3)

24 Caller’s error, rung me, Brown disturbed! (5, 6)

DOWN

2 Hot inside pleasant corner (5)

3 Lace Liam draped round shrub (8)

4 Really enjoying French wine encased in firewood (6)

5 Regime making one expire before time (4)

6 We hope nothing spoiled this expression of delight (7)

7 All those employed for our cable distribution (6, 5)

8 Firm’s private know-how, with time, ruined cedar trees (5, 6)

13 Get realm entangled in wire (8)

15 Elite artist transformed studio (7)

17 Gained weight from a Chinese dumpling (6)

20 Forced labourer left during rescue (5)

21 Need redesigned garden (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Apply yourself earnestly to work (7, 4)

9 Curve section (3)

10 Cinema fan (5-4)

11 Across country (8)

12 Copied (4)

14 Member of a rock band’s transport and set-up crew (6) 16 Adjournment (6)

18 Beasts of burden (4) 19 Relating to law courts (8) 22 Celebrity kid (5, 4)

23 Card which can be high or low in blackjack (3)

24 Misdialled phone connection (5, 6)

DOWN

2 Little corner (5) 3 Shrub with rose-like flowers (8)

4 Adoring (6)

5 Attempt to lose weight (4) 6 ___ cushion, joke pillow (7) 7 All the working people in a given population (6, 5) 8 Confidential piece of business information (5, 6) 13 Cabled message (8) 15 Artist’s studio (7)

17 Chinese dumpling (6) 20 Menial worker (5)

21 Biblical garden (4)