2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Board members show how to make a speech (11)

9 Stretch of river occupied by vessels (7)

10 Architectural style of icon I broke (5)

11 Twelve can go forward or back (4)

12 Treading round a slope (8) 14 Annoying person has nothing on — what sauce! (5) 15 Pal OK, dancing the dance (5)

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

22 Swimmer with a tailpiece (4)

24 A trio breaking up relationship (5)

25 Writers I’ve found thoughtful (7)

26 Laundry equipment removes splotches, eg (7, 4)

DOWN

2 Beg for one member’s traditional learning (7)

3 Some other nesting bird (4) 4 They admit an alternative proposition (6)

5 Bit of bad weather, and prior to change (8)

6 Perhaps past being emotionally stressed (5)

7 Sound of distant mock attack (5)

8 A charming sort of accent (5) 13 Renowned solicitor to begin (5, 3)

16 Astute ruler now accepted (7)

17 Stylish streetcars turned up (5)

18 Part of the head church (6) 19 Arrived with pupil following animal (5)

21 Doctor allowed to go up to roadside lodgings (5)

23 Break for a game (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Company’s board of managers (11)

9 Breadth (7)

10 Greek architecture style (5) 11 Midday (4)

12 Angle of slope (8)

14 Basil-based Italian sauce (5)

15 Lively ballroom dance (5) 20 Images from the past (8) 22 Closing part, in music (4)

24 Correlation (5)

25 Cogitative (7)

26 Fasteners to hold washing on the line (7, 4)

DOWN

2 Beg (7)

3 Another name for the sea eagle (4)

4 Hypothesis (6)

5 Globule of precipitation (8)

6 Anxious (5)

7 Boxer’s deceptive movement (5)

8 (Angle) of less than 90? (5) 13 Begin a journey (5, 3)

16 Astute (7)

17 Chic or clever (5)

18 Area between the forehead and ear (6)

19 Animal of the desert (5)

21 Drivers’ stopover (5)

23 Break (4)