2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTICCLUES

ACROSS

1 Rings American being cruel (7)

5 Woman over small mountains (5)

8 Our leading lady socialist sinned (5)

9 Gas supplies in war in a muddle? (7)

10 Stalemate having gone to Yale? (8)

11 Employer taken in because reckless (4)

13 Continue to suppose parking unavailable (6)

15 Sock choice of Plymouth footballers? (6)

18 Beware hollow chamber (4) 19 These empowered to go over our heads? (8)

22 Radio man in Minorca drunk (7)

23 Aural stimulation for girl (5) 24 Little chamber orchestra’s first instrument (5)

25 Host ate bananas in uncomfortable position (3, 4)

DOWN

1 Cheese some gorge? (7)

2 Six-footer to be found in Bear Valley (5)

3 Fire still burning for this ex? (3, 5)

4 Rare fright catching cold (6) 5 Ram shot by Yankee soldiers (4)

6 Extremely dastardly and horrible family (7)

7 Drummer Ringo sending rodents up river (5)

12 Two permitted in charmed circle? (8)

14 Some part with a pound (7) 16 What might be wide court passage (7)

17 Swimmer stays popular in defeat (6)

18 Funny pear not finished (5) 20 Entertain a creative influence (5)

21 Ruined pool game (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Unfeeling (7)

5 Chilean range (5)

8 Strayed (5)

9 Suffocating solution (7)

10 Impasse (8)

11 Consumer (4)

13 Take up again (6)

15 Knitted diamond pattern (6) 18 Grotto (4)

19 Planes (8)

22 Italian inventor (7)

23 Female name (5)

24 String quartet member (5) 25 Stressful situation (3, 4)

DOWN

1 Dairy product (7)

2 Immature insect (5)

3 Former lover (3, 5)

4 Uncommon (6)

5 Military force (4)

6 Bloodline (7)

7 Richard Starkey stage name (5)

12 Wrist ornament (8) 14 More than a few (7) 16 Pull out (7)

17 Conclusion (6)

18 Causing mirth (5)

20 Divert (5)

21 Horseback sport (4)