2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Unconventional rabbi’s names for infants (5, 2, 4)

9 I see — it sounds cold (3) 10 On October 31 some shall owe enjoyment to ghosts and witches! (9)

11 Cosy baby bird (8)

12 Remain in pigpen holding animal’s head (4)

14 Changing planes in Italian city (6)

16 Meaning I’m left at sea (6) 18 Colour of soft fluid (4)

19 One handling stage drama on hill (8)

22 Ordinary post from Milan, perhaps, during voyage (5, 4) 23 King Bill going around the bend (3)

24 Stuff for wrapping pet up raises problem (6, 5)

DOWN

2 Donkey comes round near very deep hole (5)

3 Girl communist, a monarch (8)

4 One left buried in beach grains where there’s coastline all around (6)

5 A number on waterway (4) 6 Eminent conductor bent Tom’s ear (7)

7 Two spinning off here, the end of the race? (7, 4)

8 Becoming shirty since being helpless with laughter (2, 9) 13 Likely to be held up in the rain (8)

15 Indian joke — Punch has one (7)

17 Put idea out, but not one to modernise (6)

20 Time to relax, then torment (5)

21 Jumble-sale refreshments (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Newborns (5, 2, 4)

9 Bitterly cold (3)

10 “Trick or treat” night (9) 11 Baby bird (8)

12 Corset support (4)

14 City at the foot of Mount Vesuvius (6)

16 Bring from abroad (6)

18 ___ Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall” band (4)

19 Machine worker (8) 22 Ordinary non-electronic communication (5, 4)

23 ___ de Triomphe, Paris landmark (3)

24 Soft thin material for wrapping delicate items (6, 5)

DOWN

2 Bottomless gulf (5) 3 English king known as “the Unready” (8)

4 “Treasure ___”, RL Stevenson novel (6)

5 River of Bristol and Bath (4) 6 Eminent conductor (7)

7 End of a race (7, 4)

8 Helpless with laughter (2, 9) 13 Portable rain canopy (8) 15 Indo-European language of India and Pakistan (7) 17 Modernise (6)

20 Irritate playfully (5)

21 Beers (4)